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Li, Rui; Zhang, Zhiyi; Ni, Chuanbin – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
It has long been considered that the Mandarin possessive reflexive "zijide" can be either locally bound or long distance bound, leading to ambiguity where it fails to exclusively refer back to either long distance binding NP or the local NP. In addition to syntactic factors such as the local versus long distance division, the present…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Syntax
Hu, Shenai; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Gavarró, Anna – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
There is a debate as to whether topic structures in Chinese involve A'-movement or result from base-generation of the topic in the left periphery. If Chinese topicalization was derived by movement, under the assumptions of Friedmann et al.'s Relativized Minimality (Lingua 119:67-88, 2009), we would expect children's comprehension of object…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Mandarin Chinese, Grammar, Semantics
Huang, Haiquan; Zhou, Peng; Crain, Stephen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This study investigated 5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's comprehension of "wh"-questions, universal statements and free choice inferences. Previous research has found that Mandarin-speaking children assign a universal interpretation to sentences with a wh-word (e.g., "shei" 'who') followed by the adverbial quantifier…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Mandarin Chinese, Young Children, Inferences
Choubsaz, Yassaman; Gheitury, Amer – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The present study aims to explore the semantic knowledge of a group of Iranian deaf individuals who, due mainly to auditory deprivation did not acquire language normally in early years of their life. The participants were ten deaf and a matched number of hearing individuals as control group. A test of five tasks was administrated to assess their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Whitmore, Jeannette M.; Shore, Wendelyn J.; Smith, Peg Hull – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2004
The type of information (taxonomic or thematic) available at different levels of knowledge was investigated. Following extensive norming to identify taxonomic and thematic associates of low-frequency nouns, participants determined if taxonomic or thematic associates were meaningfully related to target words at three levels of knowledge: target…
Descriptors: Nouns, Knowledge Level, Semantics, Experiments