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    Yu'an Yang

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    Graduate Student, Linguistics

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    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
    Dates:
    "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?