de Villiers Jill G, Garfield Jay, Gernet-Girard Harper, Roeper Tom, Speas Margaret
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2009 Fall;2009(125):29-47. doi: 10.1002/cd.248.
We describe the nature of the evidential system in Tibetan and consider the challenges that any evidential system presents to language acquisition. We present data from Tibetan-speaking children that shed light on their understanding of the syntactic and semantic properties of evidentials, and their competence in the point-of-view shift required for the use of evidentials in questions. We then examine connections between the mastery of indirect evidentials and children's inferential competence.
我们描述了藏语中证据系统的性质，并考虑了任何证据系统给语言习得带来的挑战。我们展示了来自说藏语儿童的数据，这些数据揭示了他们对证据词的句法和语义属性的理解，以及他们在疑问句中使用证据词所需的视角转换能力。然后，我们研究了间接证据词的掌握与儿童推理能力之间的联系。
