本研究旨在瞭解閩南語幼兒之動詞語義發展，並深入探討幼兒閩南語動詞的習得、動詞語義的掌握與語法發展。
本研究係以三位母語為閩南語的幼兒為研究對象，以日誌研究結合MCDI動作動詞轉譯所得之動詞，編製「閩南語幼兒之動詞語義發展檢核表」為研究工具，採用父母檢核報告的形式進行研究。
資料經整理分析後，獲得研究結果為：（1）幼兒在2歲以後，其習得的動詞數量呈現快速成長的趨勢；（2）幼兒習得的動詞類別以結合具體事物的及物動詞為主；（3）幼兒動詞語義發展以習得動詞其中一個語義為主要類別；（4）幼兒早期的語言發展與語境息息相關；（5）雙詞句階段的幼兒習得的句法結構主要為「主語＋謂語」的結構；（6）幼兒語言習得是建構的歷程；（7）父母是幼兒語言習得的重要他人。就上述所獲致之結果，本研究分別提出建議提供父母、教師及未來研究之參考，期望能夠以更細緻深入的角度看待幼兒語言的發展。

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to reveal the Southern Min early childhood development in verb semantics, and get deeper to analysis the acquisition and the development of children Southern Min verbs and grammars.
In this study, three native Southern Min children were adopted as the research subjects, journal research combined with MCDI. The verbs were translated from the action words. To edit the checklist “Southern Min early childhood development in verb semantics” as the research tool. To carry out the research by checking the report of the parents’ use.
After collecting and analysising the date, the following results are shown:
1.After two years old, the child acquisition of verb number shows fast-growing.
2.The child acquisition of verb types based on transitive verbs which are integrated with specific things.
3.The early childhood development in verb semantics is to obtain one of the semantics as the main type.
4.Early childhood language development is related to the context.
5.The syntactic structure for two words stage of the early childhood language acquisition is based on “SV”structure.
6.Language acquisition is a process of construction.
7.Parents are the significant others to children’s language acquisition.
The purpose of this study is to provide recommendation for parents, teachers and future research. Look forward to forming more in-depth perspective on the development of child language.

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