1st Edition
Featural Relativized Minimality and Intervention Effects in Child Grammar A Case Study of Mandarin Passives
By Minqi Liu
Copyright 2027
240 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
How do young children comprehend complex sentences when intervening elements disrupt understanding? This book explores a key puzzle: children often struggle to link phrases across distance when similar phrases intervene — an "intervention effect" that sheds light on how the mind constructs grammatical structure.
Using Mandarin Chinese passive sentences as a uniquely clear test case, the author... Read more
1. Background and Motivation 2. Syntax of Mandarin bei-passives 3. Previous literature on L1 acquisition of passives 4. bei-Passive production in Child and Child-Directed Mandarin 5. Animacy and intervention effects in child Mandarin passives 6. Number, Shape, and intervention effects in child Mandarin passives 7. Summary and discussion
Biography
Minqi Liu is a Lecturer at Fudan University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2023. Her research focuses on generative syntax and first language acquisition. Her work has appeared in journals including Language Acquisition, Languages, and Tsinghua Linguistics.
