Mandarin Development of Indonesian Immigrants’ Children

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo

   Pages 1-15

3. Phonological Development

   • Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo

   Pages 17-110

4. Lexical Development

   • Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo

   Pages 111-130

5. Syntactic Development

   • Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo

   Pages 131-149

6. Conclusion

   • Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo

   Pages 151-154

This book summarizes the results a three-year longitudinal project on Mandarin development among children of Indonesian mothers, the second largest non-Mandarin speaking immigrant group in Taiwan. These children were acquiring their first language while interacting primarily with a non-native learner of the language. The book discusses phonological, lexical and syntactic development to provide a better understanding of the language development of the children of immigrants and has important implications for language education policy and language acquisition theories.

• Immigrant Language development
• Language development
• Lexical development
• Mandarin acquisition
• Phonological development
• Syntactic development
• chinese

• National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

  Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo

Jenny Yichun Kuo is faculty member in the Department of Foreign Languages at the National Chiayi University. She received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota in 2003.  Her research interests include first and second language acquisition, language and cognition. She has been undertaking research on the children of immigrants in Taiwan for 12 years. Below are two examples of  her related publications. 


Kuo, Jenny Yichun. (2008). Mandarin Acquisition by Children of Vietnamese Mothers in Taiwan. Taipei: Crane. ISBN 978-986-147-282-9.


Kuo, Jenny Yichun (2015). Lexical Development by Children of Thai Immigrants in Taiwan. Studies in English Language and Literature, 35, 241-252.

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