Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an '-s'

	Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an '-s'
	Tardif, Twila 1; Gelman, Susan A.; Fu, Xiaolan2 ; Zhu, Liqi2 ; Tardif, T (reprint author), Univ Michigan, Dept Psychol, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.
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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	实证研究
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收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000299049100006
引用统计	被引频次：29[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/48371
专题	脑与认知科学国家重点实验室
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.