This book is a welcome contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the acquisition of Chinese, and to the crosslinguistic study of language development. In its concentration on pragmatic and discourse skills it breaks new ground, and will inevitably stimulate further research into these important areas.

- Paul Fletcher, University College Cork,

This is one of the few special collections that are available on discourse pragmatic approaches to Chinese child language development. As such it constitutes an indispensable reading for researchers in both the fields of Chinese child language and language acquisition in general.

- Hongyin Tao, University of California, Los Angeles,

This book is undoubtedly a major contribution to the field in the study of the Chinese-speaking children’s acquisition of pragmatic and discourse skills and will be a catalyst for further research.

- Yuxia Yin, Tianjin Normal University, in International Journal of Chinese Linguistics Vol. 2:1 (2015),