The study on the acquisition of wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment
This study focuses on the acquisition of wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Many studies done in English-speaking children with SLI have demonstrated that children with SLI have special difficulties in the use of object wh-questions compared with subject wh-questions. It is reported that the longer grammatical movement undergone in object wh-questions is responsible for this difficulty. As Chinese is a wh-in-situ language, our study intends to examine whether there is also an asymmetry in the acquisition of wh-subject and wh-object questions in Mandarin Chinese-speaking SLI children by investigating the acquisition of wh-questions in three groups of children—12 SLI children, 12 typically developing children matched on age, and 12 typically younger children matched on MLU.
Cao, Lin
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
国内会议
光盘
英文
28
2011-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）