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Direct linkMa, Weiyi; Zhou, Peng; Golinkoff, Roberta M. – Developmental Science, 2020
Mandarin requires neither determiners nor morphological inflections, which casts doubt on Mandarin-speaking children's ability to use function words as a syntactic bootstrapping tool to identify the form class of a new word. This study examined 3- and 5-year-old Mandarin learners' ability to use function words to interpret new words as either…
Descriptors: Young Children, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages)
