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Autor/in | Hsu, Chun-Chieh |
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Titel | Pseudo-Relatives and Restrictive-Relatives in Child Mandarin |
Quelle | In: Journal of Child Language, 50 (2023) 4, S.860-894 (35 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0305-0009 |
DOI | 10.1017/S0305000922000137 |
Schlagwörter | Mandarin Chinese; Child Language; Phrase Structure; Syntax; Pragmatics; Language Acquisition; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Preschool Children; Speech Communication 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Phrasenstruktur; Pragmalinguistik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule |
Abstract | This study investigated why object-gap relative clauses (RCs) are dominant in early child Mandarin. We discuss how restrictive-RCs differ from pseudo-RCs syntactically and pragmatically, and examine how these two types of RCs are distributed in the RC utterances of ten children and their caregivers. The results showed that (a) Mandarin-speaking children produce many more pseudo-RCs than restrictive-RCs, (b) restrictive-RCs exhibit a subject-gap advantage and are dominantly headed, and (c) pseudo-RCs exhibit an object-gap advantage and are dominantly headless. We propose that the development of restrictive-RCs is mainly influenced by the structural factor, and that the extensive use of pseudo-RCs is attributed to the communicative needs of young children. Our findings also suggest that young children's pseudo-RCs tend to have a subject-focus reading, and the object-gap dominance observed in the pseudo-RCs of child Mandarin is related to the head-final RCs and the special structural features of the cleft construction in Mandarin. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |