Do infants have abstract grammatical knowledge of word order at 17 months? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.
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Word Order in Mandarin Chinese and Grammatical Relations
It has been argued by LaPolla (1993, 1995) and Van Valin and LaPolla (1997) -among others -that word order in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth MC) is (almost) exclusively determined by informational/communicative considerations. Though it cannot be denied that word order does encode informative/communicative considerations such as identifiability, foregrounding, and focalization, it is argued here ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000920000756