The Developmental Pattern of Mandarin-Speaking Children’s Acquisition of the ba Construction Overall, an increasing trend in the use of ba construction was identified in four age groups: 6.4% of the 2-year-olds, 6.4% of the 3-year-olds, 31.3% of the 4-year-olds, and 55.9% of the 5-year-olds, as shown in Table 2 .
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A Corpus-Based Study on the Pragmatic Use of the ba Construction in Early Childhood Mandarin Chinese.
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