Children’s Comprehension in Mandarin Normal Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Sentences
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The present study mainly examines the cleft acquisition of Mandarin children. In our study, we observed learners' performances from four main perspectives, i.e., syntactic complexity effects, cleft types, age effects and developmental effects. The results of this study gave support that syntactic construction was an important factor affecting children's language acquisition. Also, different cleft types affected children's language performances. From this study, it was also evident that children's performances improved as they grow older. In the end, we attested that children went through three stages developmental sequences to acquire Mandarin cleft sentences.
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