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Acquisition of Structure and Interpretation: Cases from Mandarin Bare and Non-Bare Noun Phrases
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Chang, Hsiang-Hua – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Children's production of bare nominals is universal. When acquiring languages disallowing bare nominals, children will develop from the bare to the non-bare stage. However, Mandarin nominals may appear bare or non-bare in various positions with all kinds of interpretations. This dissertation conducts two acquisition studies to examine the…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phrase Structure, Semantics, Nouns