{"title":"Caused motion events in Uyghur child language.","authors":"Alimujiang Tusun","doi":"10.1017/S0305000925100299","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In view of recent typological work revealing important intra-typological variations among verb-framed languages in motion expression, we investigated children's acquisition of caused motion events in Uyghur. Four-, 6-, 8-, and 10-year-old children and adults participated in a cartoon narration task, and analyses of data in terms of syntactic packaging, semantic density, and information focus showed that, while children's use of packaging strategies involving complex syntax (i.e., subordination) - previously found to be challenging for children speaking verb-framed languages - was adult-like from age 8, they continued to diverge from the adult patterns for measures of semantic density and information focus at age 10. We take this developmental asymmetry as emanating from different kinds of knowledge entailed in encoding motion and suggest that they may be on different developmental timelines because they demand differential amount of experience with a language.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1321-1345"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Child Language","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925100299","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/11/7 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In view of recent typological work revealing important intra-typological variations among verb-framed languages in motion expression, we investigated children's acquisition of caused motion events in Uyghur. Four-, 6-, 8-, and 10-year-old children and adults participated in a cartoon narration task, and analyses of data in terms of syntactic packaging, semantic density, and information focus showed that, while children's use of packaging strategies involving complex syntax (i.e., subordination) - previously found to be challenging for children speaking verb-framed languages - was adult-like from age 8, they continued to diverge from the adult patterns for measures of semantic density and information focus at age 10. We take this developmental asymmetry as emanating from different kinds of knowledge entailed in encoding motion and suggest that they may be on different developmental timelines because they demand differential amount of experience with a language.
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A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. The international range of authors and breadth of coverage allow the journal to forge links between many different areas of research including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach spans a wide range of interests: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, or any other recognised facet of language study.
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