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Direct linkTardif, Twila; Gelman, Susan A.; Fu, Xiaolan; Zhu, Liqi – Journal of Child Language, 2012
English-speaking children understand and produce generic expressions in the preschool years, but there are cross-linguistic differences in how generics are expressed. Three studies examined interpretation of generic noun phrases in three- to seven-year-old child (N=192) and adult speakers (N=163) of Mandarin Chinese. Contrary to suggestions by…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nouns, Mandarin Chinese, Phrase Structure
