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Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the learning condition hypothesis
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In: NPJ Sci Learn (2021)
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Revisiting Subject–Object Asymmetry in the Production of Cantonese Relative Clauses: Evidence From Elicited Production in 3-Year-Olds
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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Emergentist approaches to language acquisition identify a core role for language-specific experience and give primacy to other factors like function and domain-general learning mechanisms in syntactic development. This directly contrasts with a nativist structurally oriented approach, which predicts that grammatical development is guided by Universal Grammar and that structural factors constrain acquisition. Cantonese relative clauses (RCs) offer a good opportunity to test these perspectives because its typologically rare properties decouple the roles of frequency and complexity in subject- and object-RCs in a way not possible in European languages. Specifically, Cantonese object RCs of the classifier type are frequently attested in children’s linguistic experience and are isomorphic to frequent and early-acquired simple SVO transitive clauses, but according to formal grammatical analyses Cantonese subject RCs are computationally less demanding to process. Thus, the two opposing theories make different predictions: the emergentist approach predicts a specific preference for object RCs of the classifier type, whereas the structurally oriented approach predicts a subject advantage. In the current study we revisited this issue. Eighty-seven monolingual Cantonese children aged between 3;2 and 3;11 (Mage: 3;6) participated in an elicited production task designed to elicit production of subject- and object- RCs. The children were very young and most of them produced only noun phrases when RCs were elicited. Those (nine children) who did produce RCs produced overwhelmingly more object RCs than subject RCs, even when animacy cues were controlled. The majority of object RCs produced were the frequent classifier-type RCs. The findings concur with our hypothesis from the emergentist perspectives that input frequency and formal and functional similarity to known structures guide acquisition.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8732946/ https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.679008
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A Meta-Analytic Study of the Neural Systems for Auditory Processing of Lexical Tones
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Neural basis for processing hidden complexity indexed by small and finite clauses in Mandarin Chinese
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The emergence of perfective aspect in Cantonese-English bilingual children as a case of contact-induced grammaticalization ...
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Web usage mining with evolutionary extraction of temporal fuzzy association rules
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On the semantics continuum of the causative constructions in Chaozhou dialect and Taiwanese Southern Min
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Temporal fuzzy association rule mining with 2-tuple linguistic representation
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On the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of the morpheme Kai in the Chaozhou dialect
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Documentation of Hezhen (Kile), a moribund Tungusic language: Methods and principles
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Syllable timing and pausing: evidence from Cantonese
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In: Language and Speech, Vol. 52, no. 1 (Mar 2009), pp. 29-53 (2009)
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Documentation of Hezhen (Kile), a moribund Tungusic language: Methods and principles
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The grammaticalization of the words for "say" and "see" in the Chaozhao dialect and Taiwanese Southern Min.
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In: Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 23(1): 61-71 (2007)
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The bilingual child : early development and language contact.
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The bilingual child: early development and language contact
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In: American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project (2007)
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Aspectual Asymmetries in the Mental Representation of Events: Significance of Lexical Aspect
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In: Chu, Patrick Chun Kau; Kwan, Stella Wing Man; Matthews, Stephen; Yap, Foong Ha; Man Yiu, Emily Sze; Wong, Stella Fat; et al.(2006). Aspectual Asymmetries in the Mental Representation of Events: Significance of Lexical Aspect. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 28(28). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/39j2c0sc (2006)
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