NDLI: Children’s knowledge of double negative structures in Mandarin Chinese

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Author	Zhou, Peng Crain, Stephen Thornton, Rosalind
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This study investigated children’s knowledge of double negation in Mandarin Chinese. Double negation is a phenomenon where two negatives cancel each other out, thereby yielding a positive meaning. Previous research found that children did not have knowledge of double negation until the age of seven or later. We argue that the observed difficulty of children in previous research is due to an artifact of the experimental task where the target structure was presented without the support of an appropriate context. To see whether preschool children have knowledge of double negation, we used experimental tasks which presented the structure in a plausible context. The results show that 5-year-olds already know that two negatives cancel each other out. By age 6 children are even able to produce double negation in an adult-like manner. This is evidence that double negation does not pose significant difficulty for young children if a plausible context is provided.
Starting Page	333
Ending Page	359
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258558
Journal	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728560
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-11-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Double negation Logic Plausible contexts Child language Mandarin Chinese Comparative Linguistics Japanese Chinese Theoretical Languages Languages and Literature
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language History and Philosophy of Science

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