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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Peng  Zhou
Institution:	Macquarie University
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/profile.html?memberID=222
State and/or Country:	Australia
Linguistic Field(s):	Psycholinguistics Cognitive Science Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s):	Chinese, Mandarin English
Language Family(ies):	Sino-Tibetan
Academic Paper Abstract:	Scope Processing in Chinese Scope Assignment in Chinese: Why children and adults differ Scope Assignment in Child Language: Evidence from the acquisition of Chinese Focus Identification in Child Mandarin Focus identification in child Mandarin Children's interpretation of disjunction in the scope of ‘before’: a comparison of English and Mandarin Children's use of phonological information in ambiguity resolution: a view from Mandarin Chinese Downward Entailment in Child Mandarin
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