Syntactic cues to the noun and verb distinction in Mandarin child-directed speech
The syntactic structure of sentences in which a new word appears may provide listeners with cues to that new word’s form class. In English, for example, a noun tends to follow a determiner (a/an/the), while a verb precedes the morphological inflection [ing]. The presence of these markers may assist...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
2019
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