Sources of children’s difficulties with non-canonical sentence structures: insights from mandarin

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• What: This 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. This study attempts to shed light on the role of word order and the presence and absence of morphosyntactic cues by examining how Mandarin-learning children produce and comprehend three Mandarin non-canonical structures, i.e., the -, the -, and the -. Lisi, Zhangsan kick- one- ‘Lisi was kicked by Zhangsan once` Critically for the purpose of this study, the three non-canonical structures differ from . . .
  

   

  

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