The acquisition of Chinese dative constructions

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Chung, TTR [1 ]
Gordon, P [1 ]
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[1] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
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H [语言、文字];
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05 ;
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The present paper examines the acquisition of the dative construction in Chinese, centering on issues raised in Baker's Paradox relating to how children figure out that certain syntactic rules are not completely productive (Baker, 1979; Pinker 1989). We tested 29 Chinese speaking children from Taiwan, on a forced-choice grammaticality judgment test comparing double object constructions to prepositional constructions. Results revealed that children's acquisition of the dative ih Chinese is guided By a set of Narrow Range Rules that define semantic subclasses of verbs that are permitted to alternate within the language (Pinker 1989).
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