Hui Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hui Li plays a role.
Articles
Comparing classifier use in 1995 and 2010 early child Cantonese to explore social change in Hong Kong Current Trends in Chinese Discourse, Wang, Wei and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 79–97 | Article
2014 This study compared and analysed the classifier usage in two cohorts: the 492 Cantonese-speaking young children tested in 1995 (Tse & Li, 2011), and the 143 children tested in 2010 (Li &Tse, 2011). The results indicated that: (1) the 1995 and 2010 cohorts shared the same 8 most commonly used… read more
Tense and temporality: How young children express time in Cantonese Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children, Hua, Zhu and Lixian Jin (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Article
2014 This study investigated how a representative sample of 492 Cantonese-speaking children aged 36, 48 and 60 months expressed time during naturalistic conversations with peers. Spontaneous utterances produced by dyads of children in a 30-minute role-play context were collected, transcribed and… read more
Tense and temporality: How young children express time in Cantonese Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children, Hua, Zhu and Lixian Jin (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Article
2012 This study investigated how a representative sample of 492 Cantonese-speaking children aged 36, 48 and 60 months expressed time during naturalistic conversations with peers. Spontaneous utterances produced by dyads of children in a 30-minute role-play context were collected, transcribed and… read more