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Direct linkLee, Joanne N.; Naigles, Letitia R. – Cognition, 2008
Mandarin Chinese allows pervasive ellipsis of noun arguments (NPs) in discourse, which casts doubt concerning child learners' use of syntax in verb learning. This study investigated whether Mandarin learning children would nonetheless extend verb meanings based on the number of NPs in sentences. Forty-one Mandarin-speaking two- and three-year-olds…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Syntax, Mandarin Chinese
