NDLI: Children's knowledge of ellipsis constructions in Mandarin Chinese.

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Author	Zhou, Peng
Spatial Coverage	China
Description	Author Affiliation: Zhou P ( Department of Cognitive Science, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia, peng.zhou@mq.edu.au.)
Abstract	This study investigated 4-year-old children's knowledge of the structural constraints on ellipsis constructions in Mandarin Chinese, focusing on the structural difference between verb phrase (VP) ellipsis and null object constructions. In Mandarin Chinese, if the antecedent clause of a VP-ellipsis structure contains an adverbial modifier, this adverbial modifier must be recovered at the elided site in the second clause. However, if the antecedent clause of a null object construction contains an adverbial modifier, the reconstruction of this adverbial modifier at the elided site is not necessary. Two experiments were conducted to examine whether young Mandarin-speaking children are sensitive to this structural difference between the two ellipsis constructions. The results show that children exhibited adult-like performance in both experiments. This is evidence that young Mandarin-speaking children have knowledge of the structural difference between VP-ellipsis and null object constructions with regard to adverbial recovery. We interpreted the findings in conjunction with previous research as evidence that children's knowledge of the structural constraints on ellipsis constructions is innately specified.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	00906905
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	43
e-ISSN	15736555
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Language	English
Publisher	Springer
Publisher Date	2014-08-01
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Discipline Psychology Knowledge Language Linguistics Asian Continental Ancestry Group Child, Preschool China Female Humans Male Psycholinguistics Journal Article Research Support, Non-u.s. Gov't
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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