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Shuo Feng; Kailun Zhang – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study aims to explore how second language (L2) speakers process four types of presupposition triggers in an online self-paced reading task and an offline acceptability judgment task. The four types of triggers are definite expressions with "the," the factive verb "know," the change-of-state verb "stop" and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Computer Assisted Testing, Paper and Pencil Tests
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Yang, Yu'an; Goodhue, Daniel; Hacquard, Valentine; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
"Wh"-phrases in Mandarin have an interrogative (like English "what") and an indefinite (like English "a/some") interpretation. Previous comprehension studies find that children can access both interpretations around 4.5 years old; studies with younger children focus on production and find that children between 2 and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Morphemes, Language Processing