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Rui-Jia Zhang

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Review Open access Aug 2026

The Definiteness Effect in Mandarin Chinese: A Critical Narrative Review of Marking Devices, Existential Constructions, and Acquisition

Mandarin Chinese lacks morphological articles, yet speakers reliably distinguish definite from indefinite reference through word order, nominal form, and discourse context. This review critically synthesises the theoretical, corpus-based, and acquisition literature on the definiteness effect in Mandarin, understood bot...

Rui-Jia Zhang, Yan Zhang · 0 citations

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