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Alternative Realities: Investigating Comprehension and Production of Counterfactuals by L1-English Learners of Chinese
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Alessia Cherici – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Counterfactuals are a type of conditional sentences used to convey situations that do not correspond to reality. Tense morphology is a core ingredient to encode counterfactuals in English and most Indo-European languages. Mandarin Chinese (hereafter Chinese) lacks tense morphology and does not require counterfactuals to be formally distinguished…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Morphemes