期刊
COGNITION
卷 196, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104103
关键词
Mandarin; Children; Relative clauses; On-line processing; Permutation analysis
资金
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University [G-YBF9]
- Australian Research Council [CE140100041]
A core question in language acquisition is whether children's syntactic processing is experience-dependent and language-specific, or whether it is governed by abstract, universal syntactic machinery. We address this question by presenting corpus and on-line processing dat a from children learning Mandarin Chinese, a language that has been important in debates about the universality of parsing processes. The corpus data revealed that two different relative clause constructions in Mandarin are differentially used to modify syntactic subjects and objects. In the experiment, 4-year-old children's eye-movements were recorded as they listened to the two RC construction types (e.g., Can you pick up the pig thatpushed the sheep?). A permutation analysis showed that children's ease of comprehension was closely aligned with the distributional frequencies, suggesting syntactic processing preferences are shaped by the input experience of these constructions.
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