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Default ne in Child Mandarin Chinese

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Authors

Hagstrom, Paul; Chen-Main, Joan; Legendre, Geraldine; Liang, Tao

Issue Date
2001
Publisher
Institute for Cognitive Science, Seoul National University
Citation
Journal of cognitive science, Vol.2 No.2, pp. 81-118
Abstract
This paper reports an examination of the acquisition of tense-aspect
markers in three children acquiring Mandarin Chinese as their first
language. Focusing on the earliest markers acquired-ne and Ie-we
argue that ne is primarily used as a default tense-aspect marker in early
spontaneous speech production.
This is an important result for a number of reasons. To the best of our knowledge, this pattern had not been established through any detailed
analysis of early child data (around the age of 2) before. In addition, thε
Mandarin pattern confirms the existence of default strategies during
acquisition of functional morphology cross-linguistically, independently of
the classification of the specific language as morphologically rich" or
morphologically poor."
ISSN
1598-2327
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/70703
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