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The acquisition of constraints in child Mandarin ...
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Since Aristotle, language has been conceived of as a mapping between sentences and their meanings. Assuming that children come biologically equipped with a „Universal Grammar,‟ the task of the language learner is to figure out the mapping relations between sentence structures derived within the computational system and their potential meanings. Within the Generative tradition, this mapping relation is seen to be constrained by core principles of Universal Grammar. These core principles limit children‟s initial hypotheses, either about possible structures or about possible meanings in human languages. By limiting children‟s hypotheses on both form and meaning, the core principles of Universal Grammar enable children to avoid many potential errors that they might otherwise commit. Therefore, children are expected to rapidly converge on the adult grammar, by only adopting linguistic hypotheses that are licensed by Universal Grammar. It is of considerable interest to investigate children‟s knowledge of the ...
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URL: https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/The_acquisition_of_constraints_in_child_Mandarin/19441412 https://dx.doi.org/10.25949/19441412
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Comprehension of the Presupposition Trigger Ye "Also" by Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders
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In: Frontiers in Psychology ; 11 (2020). - 570453. - Frontiers Research Foundation. - eISSN 1664-1078 (2020)
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The Interpretation of Disjunction in the Scope of Dou in Child Mandarin
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In: Front Psychol (2020)
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The acquisition of constraints in child Mandarin
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An, Shasha. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2015
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