The acquisition of ambiguous wh-adjuncts by Mandarin-speaking children

Jun 4, 2023

Project title: The acquisition of ambiguous wh-adjuncts by Mandarin-speaking children: the roles of prosody and order of mention

  • This project examines 3-5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of Mandarin wh-adjunct zenme, by manipulating the prosodic stress and the order of mention. Children will listen to 4 stories in Mandarin, with manner and causal readings of zenme established in each story; then they will answer a question. Currently
  • This project is being conducted at the Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab by Xuan Wang and Dr. Minai.
Language Acquisition
Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang
Ph.D. student in Linguistics

I am a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of Kansas. My research interests include psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of first and second language acquisition and processing.