In the published article, there were errors in Table 8 as published. The line indicating the percentage of the occurrence of different semantic content categories for Reject, Denial, Additive, Recurrence and Adversative was incorrect. The corrected Table 8 appears below.
Table 8
| 2 year olds | 3 year olds | 4 year olds | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Existence |  | ||
| Nonexistence |  | ||
| Attribution |  | ||
| Action |  | ||
| Locative state |  | ||
| State |  | ||
| Quantity |  | ||
| Temporal |  | ||
| Reject |  | ||
| Denial |  | ||
| Locative action |  | ||
| Possession |  | ||
| Additive |  | ||
| Causal |  | ||
| Dative |  | ||
| Recurrence |  | ||
| Notice |  | ||
| Adversative |  | ||
| Epistemic |  | ||
| Communication |  | ||
| Specification |  | ||
Occurrence of different semantic content categories by age group.
A dotted line indicates that the semantic content category had < 20% occurrence, a dashed line indicates 20%−89% occurrence, and a solid line indicates ≥90% occurrence.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords
semantic content category, language corpus, Mandarin-speaking children, cognitive and syntactic complexity, acquisition
Citation
Tang TP-Y, Lau DK-Y and Leung M-T (2024) Corrigendum: Corpus of Mandarin Child Language: a preliminary study on the acquisition of semantic content categories in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers. Front. Psychol. 15:1359920. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1359920
Received
22 December 2023
Accepted
02 January 2024
Published
16 January 2024
Volume
15 - 2024
Edited and reviewed by
Xiaowei Zhao, Emmanuel College, United States
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