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Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an '-s' | |
Tardif, Twila1; Gelman, Susan A.; Fu, Xiaolan2; Zhu, Liqi2; Tardif, T (reprint author), Univ Michigan, Dept Psychol, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. | |
心理所单位排序 | 1 |
摘要 | English-speaking children understand and produce generic expressions in the preschool years, but there are cross-linguistic differences in how generics are expressed. Three studies examined interpretation of generic noun phrases in three-to seven-year-old child (N=192) and adult speakers (N=163) of Mandarin Chinese. Contrary to suggestions by Bloom (1981), Chinese-speaking adults honor a clear distinction between generics (expressed as bare NPs) and other quantified expressions ('all'/suo3you3 and 'some'/you3de). Furthermore, Mandarin-speaking children begin to distinguish generics from 'all' or 'some' as early as five years, as shown in both confirmation (Study 2) and property-generation (Study 3) tasks. Nonetheless, the developmental trajectory for Chinese appears prolonged relative to English and this seems to reflect difficulty with 'all' and 'some' rather than difficulty with generics. Altogether these results suggest that generics are primary, and that the consistency of markings affects the rate at which non-generic NPs are distinguished from generics. |
学科领域 | Psycholinguistics |
2012 | |
语种 | 英语 |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE |
ISSN | 0305-0009 |
卷号 | 39期号:1页码:130-161 |
期刊论文类型 | Article |
URL | 查看原文 |
收录类别 | SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000299049100006 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10863 |
专题 | 脑与认知科学国家重点实验室 |
通讯作者 | Tardif, T (reprint author), Univ Michigan, Dept Psychol, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Michigan, Dept Psychol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tardif, Twila,Gelman, Susan A.,Fu, Xiaolan,et al. Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an '-s'[J]. JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE,2012,39(1):130-161. |
APA | Tardif, Twila,Gelman, Susan A.,Fu, Xiaolan,Zhu, Liqi,&Tardif, T .(2012).Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an '-s'.JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE,39(1),130-161. |
MLA | Tardif, Twila,et al."Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an '-s'".JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE 39.1(2012):130-161. |
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