Simplified grammar in both languages? On scope assignment in Q-Neg sentences in English-dominant heritage Chinese speakers
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<jats:p>Quantifier-negation (Q-Neg) sentences are sentences like ‘All teachers did not use Donald’s car,’ where a negation word and universal quantifier occur in the subject position. There are both surface scope (all>not) and inverse scope (not>all) readings in English, but only the surface scope (all>not) reading is allowed in Chinese. This study conducted a picture-matching truth value judgment experiment to examine whether English-dominant heritage Chinese speakers know the difference between English and Chinese regarding the interpretation of Q-Neg sentences. The data reveals three different groups of participants: a. participants who accepted the inverse scope reading in both languages; b. participants who rejected the inverse scope reading in both languages; c. participants who accepted the inverse scope reading in English but rejected it in Chinese. Implications regarding heritage language research will be discussed.</jats:p>
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Shen, Jennifer, and Yunchuan Chen (n.d.). Simplified grammar in both languages? On scope assignment in Q-Neg sentences in English-dominant heritage Chinese speakers. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 7(1). pp. 5228–5228. 10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5228 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/32377.
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Yunchuan Chen
My research interests are experimental approaches to grammars, L2 acquisition and heritage languages. My research projects so far include Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tibetan, Thai and Nuosu Yi. I am also interested in how to teach/learn foreign languages effectively with meaning-based approaches.
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