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Yuan Xie; Peng Zhou – First Language, 2024
Associative anaphora refers to a discourse operation that links a definite determiner phrase (DP) to an antecedent that acts as an indirect referent of the definite DP. For example, in the sequence 'I bought a laptop. The keyboard was black', the definite DP 'the keyboard' is linked to 'a laptop', meaning 'the keyboard of the laptop'. The…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children, Semantics, Child Development
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Zhang, Fangfang; McCabe, Allyssa; Ye, Jiaqi; Wang, Yan; Li, Xiaoyan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
To investigate the narrative development of Chinese-speaking children aged 3--6 years, 80 children were prompted to tell personal stories. High point analysis was used and both narrative components and overall narrative patterns were analyzed. In terms of narrative components, Chinese children were more skillful in using complicating action,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Personal Narratives, Language Patterns, Discourse Analysis