Margaret Ka-yan Lei

List of John Benjamins publications in which Margaret Ka-yan Lei is involved.

Article

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-Tak Lee 2019 Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese 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. 159–183 | Chapter

The present study examines Cantonese-speaking preschool children’s sensitivity to the distinction between universal quantification (marked by the quantifier verb suffix saai3 ‘all’) and completive aspect (marked by the aspectual verb jyun4 ‘finish’). Using the Truth Value Judgment task and the… read more