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The children's acquisition of shenme in Mandarin Chinese ...
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The children's acquisition of shenme in Mandarin Chinese ...
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Abstract:
Mandarin Chinese is known as an in-situ language. In Mandarin, wh-questions are not formed by displacing wh-phrases, as in English. Rather, Mandarin wh-phrases remain in their argument positions in the surface syntax. Attesting to this characterization of Mandarin is the fact that wh-words can be used both to ask questions and to make statements. In statements, the wh-word shenme ‘what’ is similar in meaning to the existential expression renhe (English ‘any’), and it is semantically related to the disjunction word huozhe (English ‘or’). This thesis explores Mandarin-speaking children’s interpretations of the wh-word shenme ‘what’ by comparing its interpretation to that of renhe ‘any’ and huozhe ‘or’ in three formally distinct linguistic contexts. The distributional and interpretive patterns of these expressions are used in a series of experimental investigations to assess children’s knowledge of the semantic properties of these contexts. In one set of (upward entailing) contexts, shenme ‘what’ is a question ...
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URL: https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/The_children_s_acquisition_of_shenme_in_Mandarin_Chinese/19430762 https://dx.doi.org/10.25949/19430762
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