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Hsu, Ning; Rispoli, Matthew; Hadley, Pamela A. – Language Learning and Development, 2019
The Mandarin resultative verb compound (RVC; e.g., "tui dao" "push fall" and "pa shang" "climb ascend") encodes complex events composed of an initiating action and resulting activity or state. This study investigated when Mandarin-speaking children acquired this language-specific device. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Verbs, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
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Hsu, Ning; Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew – Journal of Child Language, 2017
The contribution of parent input to children's subsequent expressive verb diversity was explored in twenty typically developing toddlers with small verb lexicons. Child developmental factors and parent input measures (i.e. verb quantity, verb diversity, and verb-related structural cues) at age 1;9 were examined as potential predictors of…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Child Language, Language Acquisition