講演抄録/キーワード |
講演名 |
2019-07-28 14:40
Do children know whanything?
-- Acquisition of wh-ambiguity in Mandarin -- ○Yu'an Yang・Daniel Goodhue・Valentine Hacquard・Jeffrey Lidz(UMD) TL2019-35 |
抄録 |
(和) |
Identifying interrogatives in a language is a challenging task, especially for children acquiring languages like Mandarin, where there is no wh-movement and wh-words (wh) can function both as question words and indefinites (Huang 1982 a.o.). As a result of these factors, strings like "Xiaoyang mei chi shenme" (Little lamb neg eat what) can either be interpreted as a question or a statement. In this study we show preschoolers are aware of this ambiguity and can use prosody to arrive at the correct interpretation (Exp 1), but have trouble blocking the interrogative interpretation in V-not-V questions (Exp 2). |
(英) |
Identifying interrogatives in a language is a challenging task, especially for children acquiring languages like Mandarin, where there is no wh-movement and wh-words (wh) can function both as question words and indefinites (Huang 1982 a.o.). As a result of these factors, strings like "Xiaoyang mei chi shenme" (Little lamb neg eat what) can either be interpreted as a question or a statement. In this study we show preschoolers are aware of this ambiguity and can use prosody to arrive at the correct interpretation (Exp 1), but have trouble blocking the interrogative interpretation in V-not-V questions (Exp 2). |
キーワード |
(和) |
Wh-indeterminate / wh-question / prosody / / / / / |
(英) |
Wh-indeterminate / wh-question / prosody / / / / / |
文献情報 |
信学技報, vol. 119, no. 151, TL2019-35, pp. 121-121, 2019年7月. |
資料番号 |
TL2019-35 |
発行日 |
2019-07-20 (TL) |
ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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