Front. Psychol. Frontiers in Psychology Front. Psychol. 1664-1078 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1359920 Psychology Correction Corrigendum: Corpus of Mandarin Child Language: a preliminary study on the acquisition of semantic content categories in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers Tang Tempo Po-Yi * Lau Dustin Kai-Yan Leung Man-Tak Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Edited and reviewed by: Xiaowei Zhao, Emmanuel College, United States

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 A corrigendum on Corpus of Mandarin Child Language: a preliminary study on the acquisition of semantic content categories in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers by Tang, T. P.-Y., Lau, D. K.-Y., and Leung, M.-T. (2023). Front. Psychol. 14:1234525. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1234525 semantic content category language corpus Mandarin-speaking children cognitive and syntactic complexity acquisition section-at-acceptance Psychology of Language

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.

Occurrence of different semantic content categories by age group.

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

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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