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Distributionally constrained items in child language: the acquisition of superweak NPI shenme ‘a/some’ in Mandarin Chinese

This paper presents new experimental results obtained from 88 Mandarin speaking children (2; 11 – 4; 09; M = 3; 11; SD = 0; 6; 44 girls) in their acquisition of shenme ‘a/some’, a prototypical superweak Negative Polarity Item (NPI) that survives in nonveridical contexts only (cf. Lin Jing et al. 201...

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Main Author: Jing Lin
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-03-01
Series:Glossa
Subjects:
distributional constraint
first language acquisition
Mandarin shenme
Negative Polarity Items (NPIs)
nonveridicality
Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/4877/
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