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Direct linkYue Ji; Anna Papafragou – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Natural languages distinguish between telic predicates that denote events leading to an inherent endpoint (e.g., "draw a balloon") and atelic predicates that denote events with no inherent endpoint (e.g., "draw balloons"). Telicity distinctions in many languages are already partly available to 4-5-year-olds. Here, using…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, Achievement Gains, Achievement
Tempo Po-Yi Tang; Yu-Yin Hsu; Dustin Kai-Yan Lau; Man-Tak Leung – SAGE Open, 2024
Aspect markers (AMs), temporal adverbs (TAs) and temporal nouns (TNs) are used by young Mandarin-speaking children to express time. However, the factors that affect the relative acquisition trajectories of these categories remains unclear. Accordingly, this study adopts Weist's time-concept model to examine the patterns of acquisition between and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Age Differences, Grammar
