This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based
on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the …

Previous studies showed that children learning a language with an obligatory singular/plural
distinction (Russian and English) learn the meaning of the number word for one earlier than …

How does linguistic structure affect children's acquisition of early number word meanings?
Previous studies have tested this question by comparing how children learning languages …

Purpose With no existing gold standard for comparison, challenges arise for establishing the
validity of a new standardized Mandarin language assessment normed in mainland China …

Background Little is known about the spontaneous speech characteristics of young children
with language delay in Mandarin, relative to their peers. Until the recent development of …

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to
human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development. This …

What do Slavic aspectual prefixes have in common with numeral classifiers? Our answer is
that the parallels are compelling, both in terms of breadth and depth. The grammatical …

This study examined whether the degree of complexity of a grammatical component in a
language would impact on its representation in the brain through identifying the neural …

This paper examines the interpretation of unclassified nouns in Mandarin Chinese from the
perspective of three theoretical approaches to the mass-count distinction in Mandarin: a …

The issue of whether there is subject-object asymmetry in Mandarin-speaking children's
performance of head-final relative clauses (RCs) has been controversial. Hypothesizing that …