Information Structure and Word Order Preference in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese

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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Main Authors: Jidong Chen, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Angel Chan, Wenchun Yang, Shu Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
information structure
child language acquisition
Mandarin Chinese
word order
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/5/2/14

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