This paper has investigated a Chinese children's acquisition of wh-word shei by case-tracking method.The research re-sults show:1)children acquire the interrogative of wh-word shei earlier than non-interrogative,and the developing characteris-tics are as follows:interrogative(1;04)→existential(2;04)→ universal(2;06)→rhetorical(3;01);2)children use the inter-rogative of wh-word shei more than non-interrogative,and the frequency is as follows:interrogative>universal>rhetorical>ex-istentia;3)the acquisition time and usage frequency of shei-existential are contradictory,namely,it is earlier acquired but rare-ly used.While the case of shei-universal-pair wh-word demonstrates the opposite tendency.It is acquired later but used more;4)the position of shei in sentences developed from subject to object,then the attributive.Chinese children's acquisition of shei is mostly shaped by language markedness,accessibility levels and task complexity.
Chinese childrenwh-worddiachronic acquisitioninterrogativenon-interrogative
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