The Children's Acquisition of Shenme in Mandarin Chinese
Auteur : Min Liao
Date de publication : 2014
Éditeur : Macquarie University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Linguistics
Nombre de pages : 238
Résumé du livre
This thesis explore Mandarin-speaking children's interpretation of the wh-word shenme 'what' by comparing its interpretation to that of renhe 'any' and huozhe 'or' in three formally distinct linguistic contexts. The distributional and interpretive patterns of these expressions are used in a series of experimental investigations to assess children's knowledge of the semantic properties of these contexts.