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Ke, Alan Hezao; Zhao, Ya; Gao, Liqun; Liu, Shuying; Pires, Acrisio – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
This paper provides experimental and theoretical evidence for the syntactic realization of an implicit possessor argument in Relational Nouns (RNs, e.g. "father") in Mandarin Chinese. The results of Experiment 1 show that the antecedent of the implicit argument in RNs must be a noun phrase (NP) in the sentence where the RN is located,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Language Usage, Grammar, Syntax
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Zhou, Peng; Crain, Stephen; Gao, Liqun; Jia, Meixiang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Two studies were conducted to investigate how high-functioning children with autism use different linguistic cues in sentence comprehension. Two types of linguistic cues were investigated: word order and morphosyntactic cues. The results show that children with autism can use both types of cues in sentence comprehension. However, compared to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Cues