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Zhang, Yi; Harris, Paul L. – First Language, 2022
Research on the development of children's decontextualized language has focused primarily on their references to events displaced in time. Here, we examine children's early emerging ability to talk about individuals who are elsewhere and therefore not participating in the conversation. We analyzed the references made by three Mandarin-speaking…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Caregivers, Young Children, Language Acquisition