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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 叶彩燕教授 (语言学及现代语言系) |
| 邓湘君教授 (语言学及现代语言系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2015-0026 |
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摘要This study investigates the acquisition of Mandarin spatial phrases from the perspective of language universality and specificity. The potential language universals discussed in this study include aspect shift (Fong 1997; Smith 1997; Rothstein 2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/04), and subevent modification (Dowty 1979; Parsons 199http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0). We propose an event-semantics account for the distribution and interpretation of Mandarin spatial PPs headed by zai '(be) at'. However, in Mandarin, the formation of localizer phrases and the division of labor between zai and dao 'reach, to' in the postverbal position also demonstrate language-specific complexities. We conducted a corpus study of Mandarin-speaking children aged between 1;9 and 6;http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0, adopting an integrative approach that takes into account multiple factors, including linguistic input, children's knowledge of event semantics, formal complexity, and cognitive development. Inconsistent cues from the input slow down acquisition: children up to 6;http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0 omitted localizers that are obligatory; 4-year-olds have not acquired the division of labor between zai and dao. Children's early sensitivity to the placement and interpretation of zai-PPs suggests guidance by universal principles. Formal complexity explains why prepositional zai, being more complex than verbal zai, is acquired later. Further, children's cognitive development explains their reliance on deictic pronouns, and their preference to express Goal.
着者Deng XJ, Yip V
期刊名称Linguistics
出版年份2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/015
卷号53
期次5
出版社DE GRUYTER MOUTON
页次1http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/079 - 1112
国际标準期刊号http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/024-3949
语言英式英语
关键词child Mandarin; corpus; event semantics localizer; space and language
Web of Science 学科类别Language & Linguistics; Linguistics
