Yu'an Yang

Research Expertise
Language Acquisition
Semantics
Publications
Exhaustivity and at-issueness: Evidence from L1 Acquisition of Mandarin
"Only Art wept" foregrounds the claim that Art was alone in weeping, while "It was Art who wept" backgrounds the presumption of a single weeper. How do kids acquiring a language come to understand such distinctions?
Linguistics
Contributor(s):
Yu'an Yang
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Ying Liu
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Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Ying Liu
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"Only Art wept" foregrounds the claim that Art was alone in weeping, while "It was Art who wept" backgrounds the presumption of a single weeper. How do kids acquiring a language come to understand such distinctions?