Is Mandarin Chinese a truth-based language? Rejecting responses to negative assertions and questions
This paper addresses the central question of whether Mandarin Chinese (MC) is a canonical truth-based language, a language that is expected to express the speaker’s disagreement to a negative proposition by means of a negative particle followed by a positive sentence. Eight native speakers of MC par...
Main Authors: | Feifei Li, Santiago González-Fuente, Pilar Prieto, M.Teresa Espinal |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01967/full |
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