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Development of Referential Dependency in Preschool Mandarin-Speaking Children
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Yuan Xie; Peng Zhou; Sergey Avrutin; Peter Coopmans – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2025
Children's knowledge of referential dependency involved in the interpretation of reflexives has been investigated mainly from a purely syntactic perspective. However, syntax alone is insufficient to account for various kinds of referential dependencies, as many of them require discourse interpretations. To fill this gap, the present study…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Inferences