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Title: Sources of Children's Difficulties with Non-Canonical Sentence Structures: Insights from Mandarin
Language: English
Authors: Jiuzhou Hao (ORCID 0000-0003-3730-0528), Vasiliki Chondrogianni (ORCID 0000-0002-8580-5662), Patrick Sturt
Source: Journal of Child Language. 2025 52(6):1295-1322.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 28
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Child Language, Sentences, Sentence Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Language Processing, Cues, Priming, Word Order, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Usage, Accuracy, Error Patterns
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000424
ISSN: 0305-0009
1469-7602
Abstract: The present study investigated whether children's difficulty with non-canonical structures is due to their non-adult-like use of linguistic cues or their inability to revise misinterpretations using late-arriving cues. We adopted a priming production task and a self-paced listening task with picture verification, and included three Mandarin non-canonical structures with differing word orders and the presence or absence of morphosyntactic cues. Forty five-to-ten-year-old Mandarin-speaking children were tested and compared to adults. Results showed that children were indistinguishable from adults in how they used different cues in real-time, although their performance in offline comprehension and production was more prone to errors but improved given the increase of age. These results suggest that the current child sample has adult-like cue-use patterns and use late-arriving cues to revise misinterpretations. The observed worse offline accuracy and production difficulties relative to adults result from their less developed domain-general abilities in performing tasks.
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Entry Date: 2025
Accession Number: EJ1486788
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