The development of null arguments in a Cantonese-English bilingual child.

Huang Pai-yuan. ; Thesis submitted in: December 1999. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-140). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Acknowledgements --- p.i ; List of Abbreviations --- p.vi ; List of Tables and Figures --- p.vii ; Abstract --- p.xi ; Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.1 --- Goal of Child Language Research and Bilingual First Language Acquisition --- p.3 ; Chapter 1.2. --- Single System Hypothesis Vs. Separate Systems Hypothesis --- p.6 ; Chapter 1.2.1. --- Single System Hypothesis --- p.6 ; Chapter 1.2.2. --- Separate Systems Hypothesis --- p.8 ; Chapter 1.3. --- Autonomous Development Hypothesis Vs. Interdependent development Hypothesis --- p.10 ; Chapter 1.3.1. --- Autonomous Development Hypothesis --- p.10 ; Chapter 1.3.2. --- Interdependent Development Hypothesis --- p.12 ; Chapter 1.4. --- The Present Study --- p.17 ; Chapter 1.4.1. --- On the Issue of Transfer in BFLA --- p.17 ; Chapter 1.4.2. --- A review of Peng (1998) --- p.18 ; Chapter 1.5. --- Preview of Other Chapters --- p.20 ; Notes to Chapter One --- p.21 ; Chapter Chapter Two: --- Methodology --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.0 --- Introduction --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.1. --- Source of Data --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.1.1. --- Family Background and Linguistic Input --- p.22 ; Chapter 2.1.2. --- Collection of Data --- p.24 ; Chapter 2.1.2.1. --- Audio Recording --- p.24 ; Chapter 2.1.2.2. --- Data Transcription --- p.25 ; Chapter 2.1.2.3. --- Transcription of Cantonese data --- p.25 ; Chapter 2.2. --- General Development of the Two Languages in the Bilingual Child --- p.26 ; Chapter 2.2.1. --- Language Dominance --- p.26 ; Chapter 2.2.2. --- Indices of Timmy's Bilingual Development --- p.27 ; Chapter 2.2.2.1. --- MLU (Mean Length of Utterance) --- p.27 ; Chapter 2.2.2.2. --- Syntactic Complexity --- p.36 ; Chapter 2.3. --- Hypothesis and Predictions --- p.37 ; Chapter 2.4. --- Analysis of Data --- p.38 ; Notes to Chapter Two --- p.38 ; Chapter Chapter Three: ...