Peng Zhou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Peng Zhou is involved.
2024 Chapter 2. To acquire a recursive grammar, children start with a recursive procedure (MERGE) Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 22–46 | Chapter
Recursion is a central topic in language acquisition because it helps to inform an explanatorily adequate theory of the human language faculty. Some researchers (e.g., Roeper, 2011) have proposed that it is possible for children’s early grammars to include a transitory acquisition stage that is… read more
2019 The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 107–124 | Chapter
This study investigated the interpretation assigned to disjunction by Mandarin-speaking children and adults in negative sentences with either overt or covert disjunction. In one condition, both negation and disjunction were phonologically realized in the second conjunct of a coordinate structure.… read more
2018 Chapter 11. The meaning of question words in statements in child Mandarin Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 249–274 | Chapter
This paper reports the findings of three experiments investigating children’s emerging knowledge of the semantics of information-seeking questions and declarative statements in Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin is particularly revealing about the semantic relationship between questions and statements,… read more
2017 Chapter 10. Free choice and wh-indefinites in child Mandarin Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In honor of Stephen Crain, Nakayama, Mineharu, Yi-ching Su and Aijun Huang (eds.), pp. 223–235 | Chapter
The present study reports findings from experimental studies investigating Mandarin-speaking children’s knowledge of the free choice reading of existential expressions like wh-indefinites. Twenty-eight monolingual Mandarin-speaking children and twenty-two Mandarin-speaking adults participated in… read more