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A Case Study of the Acquisition of Mandarin Classifiers
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- Issue Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.44 No.2, pp. 345-360
- Keywords
- first language acquisition ; classifier ; Mandarin ; the Strong Continuity Hypothesis ; DP
- Abstract
- In this paper, I examine the acquisition data of a Mandarin-speaking child Bao-Bao (2;2.7) to study his acquisition of Mandarin classifiers, which are obligatory when a demonstrative or a numeral occurs. I argue that despite the poor input from the caregiver, the child is aware of the classifier projection and the selectional syntactic relation within a Mandarin DP from an early age, which is consistent with the Strong Continuity Hypothesis (Lust 1999). I then offer arguments with respect to processing restrictions and syntactic parameter-setting to explain why the child omits and misuses classifiers. A phonological account will also be examined.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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