Information Structure and Word Order Preference in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese
The acquisition of appropriate linguistic markers of information structure (IS), e.g., word order and specific lexical and syntactic constructions, is a rather late development. This study revisits the debate on language-general preferred word order in IS and examines the use of language-specific me...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/5/2/14 |