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Peer reviewedWang, Qi; And Others – Language Acquisition, 1992
The prediction that young Chinese- and English-speaking children should exhibit parallel performance in their use of null arguments was investigated using an elicited production task. The hypothesis that early English allows null subjects was upheld; the argument that early English is a discourse-oriented language like Chinese was not upheld. (26…
Descriptors: Child Language, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Developmental Stages
