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The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and second language learners

  • Chung-Yu Chen
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Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research
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Abstract

This study investigates (a) whether heritage speakers (HSs) and second language learners (L2ers) acquire the properties of Mandarin reflexives and (b) whether HSs have an advantage over L2ers in acquiring the binding properties of Mandarin reflexives: taziji ‘himself/herself’, which requires local antecedents, and ziji ‘self’, which allows local and long-distance (LD) antecedents. Fourteen native speakers (NSs), 14 HSs, and 12 L2ers completed a Truth Value Judgment Task. Unlike NSs, HSs and L2ers predominantly allowed local but not LD interpretations, possibly due to English transfer and/or local binding as the default option. Regarding taziji, HSs patterned with NSs in accepting only local interpretations, while L2ers overaccepted the LD interpretations and underaccepted the local interpretations, possibly due to indeterminacy in judgments or misanalysis of taziji as the pronoun ta.

Abstract

This study investigates (a) whether heritage speakers (HSs) and second language learners (L2ers) acquire the properties of Mandarin reflexives and (b) whether HSs have an advantage over L2ers in acquiring the binding properties of Mandarin reflexives: taziji ‘himself/herself’, which requires local antecedents, and ziji ‘self’, which allows local and long-distance (LD) antecedents. Fourteen native speakers (NSs), 14 HSs, and 12 L2ers completed a Truth Value Judgment Task. Unlike NSs, HSs and L2ers predominantly allowed local but not LD interpretations, possibly due to English transfer and/or local binding as the default option. Regarding taziji, HSs patterned with NSs in accepting only local interpretations, while L2ers overaccepted the LD interpretations and underaccepted the local interpretations, possibly due to indeterminacy in judgments or misanalysis of taziji as the pronoun ta.

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  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Three streams of generative language acquisition research 1
  4. Part I. Variation in input
  5. The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers 7
  6. Children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variation 35
  7. Variability within varieties of English 59
  8. Part II. First language acquisition
  9. Parsing, pragmatics, and representation 85
  10. The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese 107
  11. When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin 125
  12. The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese 143
  13. Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese 159
  14. On the learnability of implicit arguments 185
  15. Red train, big train, broken train 203
  16. Part III. Second language acquisition
  17. The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and second language learners 225
  18. Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-learners from generalized classifier L1s 253
  19. Acquisition of word order in L2 Spanish 271
  20. Argument omission in SignL2 acquisition by deaf learners 297
  21. The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated 319
  22. Author index 347
  23. Subject index 355
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.63.12che

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Three streams of generative language acquisition research 1
  4. Part I. Variation in input
  5. The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers 7
  6. Children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variation 35
  7. Variability within varieties of English 59
  8. Part II. First language acquisition
  9. Parsing, pragmatics, and representation 85
  10. The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese 107
  11. When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin 125
  12. The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese 143
  13. Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese 159
  14. On the learnability of implicit arguments 185
  15. Red train, big train, broken train 203
  16. Part III. Second language acquisition
  17. The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and second language learners 225
  18. Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-learners from generalized classifier L1s 253
  19. Acquisition of word order in L2 Spanish 271
  20. Argument omission in SignL2 acquisition by deaf learners 297
  21. The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated 319
  22. Author index 347
  23. Subject index 355
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