Mandarin Temporality Inference in Child, Maternal and Adult Speech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20343752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chien‐chung Huang (0000-0001-7941-1854, National Chengchi University, Taiwan,, corresponding author), Chiung-Chih Huang |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-169 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | First Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-7237 • E-ISSN: 1740-2344 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01427237030232001 |
| OpenAlex | W2166108981 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
Previous studies on child language acquisition of temporality have focused primarily on linguistic devices such as tense and aspect markers; this study, however, adopts a different approach. By examining discourse-pragmatic resources, it investigates how implicit past reference was inferred in Mandarin child speech, maternal speech and adult speech. This approach is especially suitable for studying Mandarin Chinese, a tenseless language. The analysis shows that in three-year-old children's speech, situational context and background knowledge were the major resources for temporality inference. In maternal speech, temporal reference was inferred mainly from situational context. In adult speech, on the other hand, it was discourse context that played the major role. The results revealed three-year-old children's heavy reliance on the situational `here-and-now' to express temporal relations and their limited abilities to assess the new/old information status of temporality. In addition, maternal speech adjustments in temporality inference were also evident in the data
Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Inference · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Situational ethics · Temporality · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language Development and Disorders · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Content-Form Interaction in the Acquisition of Temporal Markers by Mandarin-Speaking Children
Predicting Chinese Preschoolers' Acquisition of Aspect Markers
Meaning and the structure of language
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The Parameter of Aspect
Mandarin Chinese
Time, tense and aspect
Talking to children
Language Acquisition
Tense and aspect
The acquisition of temporal terms
How children talk about what happened
The defective tense hypothesis
A cross-linguistic perspective on the development of temporal systems
The emergence of temporal adverbs in child Polish
The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect in Chinese
The Development of Autonomy in Preschool Mandarin Chinese-Speaking Children's Play Narratives
Remembering and planning talk between mothers and children
The CHILDES Project
The acquisition of indirect reference
Learning to describe past experiences in conversation∗
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |