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The Acquisition of Mandarin Relative Clauses in Mandarin-speaking Monolingual and Heritage Mandarin-English Bilingual Children
- Shijie Zhang
- Silke Brandt
- Vittorio Tantucci
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Description: This corpus-based study investigates the distribution and development of Mandarin relative clauses in Mandarin-speaking monolingual children and heritage Mandarin-English bilingual children’s spontaneous speech. We ask three research questions: First, is there a Mandarin subject-object asymmetry in monolingual and bilingual children’s speech? Second, does the presence or absence of a head noun interact with the subject-object asymmetry? Third, do monolingual and bilingual children produce simpler RCs (i.e., not center-embedded and/or involve only one proposition) earlier than more complex RCs?
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