APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Information Structure and Different Preferences for Word Order in Conjoined Noun Phrases in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese
- Jidong Chen
California State University, Fresno - Bhuvana Narasimhan
University of Colorado, Boulder - Angel Chan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University-Peking University - Wenchun Yang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Shu Yang
California State University, Fresno
Abstract
This study investigates the use of word order to express old and new referents in conjoined noun phrases by child (mean age 4;6) and adult speakers of Mandarin Chinese. The results show a significant difference between the adults and the children in the preferred word order for information structure.
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