Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Cantonese lexical development in the early years -- Chapter 3. Syntactic development in the early years -- Chapter 4. Interrogative development in the early years -- Chapter 5. Cognitive development in the early years: The case of temporal words -- Chapter 6. General conclusion and implications -- Appendix I: Jyutping: The Cantonese Romanization System proposed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong -- Appendix II Early vocabulary inventory for Cantonese Chinese -- References -- Index