On Chinese Children’s Acquisition of Motion Events

The motion events expressions in Chinese have been a controversial topic and few research on them from the developmental perspective. Therefore, based long-term tracking corpus of two Mandarin children SWK WMX their 13 months to 48 months, this paper studies lexicalization children’s process language acquisition reveal unique features event expressions. Research revealed that at age 3, began express primarily using serial verb structure, is, manner + path pattern grew progressively more extensive with age. follow satellite-framed early on. authentic use corpora found prove is language. present study offers new type evidence for typological properties perspective could shed fresh insight thorny issue regarding classification events.