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    "title": "Cross-Linguistic Influence and Developmental Patterns in Reflexive Pronoun Use Among Monolingual, Bilingual, and Trilingual Children",
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    "abstract": "Chinese employs compound reflexives (e.g., ta-ziji) adhering to local binding principles, and bare reflexives (ziji) exhibiting syntactic and semantic flexibility (e.g., logophoric, intensifier, generic pronoun, (Wang & Pan, 2021), whereas English reflexives primarily function as locally bound anaphors but permit extended logophoric/intensifier uses in long-distance contexts (Charnavel, 2019). Previous studies show that monolingual Mandarin children achieve adult-like local and long-distance interpretations by age four (Li, 2024), while English monolinguals master reflexives by five (Chien & Wexler, 1990). This study examines 5,299 reflexive utterances from 476 monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual children (1;0–6;9) and caregivers across 19 CHILDES corpora. Results show Chinese bare reflexives emerge earliest (1;7), followed by Chinese compound reflexives (1;11) and English reflexives (2;4). Chinese reflexives are used as local anaphoric quite late (2;6), possibly attributed to low frequency in input (< .005%). Multilingual children acquiring English alongside Chinese exhibit English-like local-binding preferences in their Chinese bare reflexives.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Development; Language acquisition; Language Production; Statistical learning; Syntax; Corpus studies; Cross-cultural analysis; Cross-linguistic analysis"
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yue",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chen",
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            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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        {
            "first_name": "Mengyao",
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            "last_name": "Shang",
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            "institution": "The Chinese University of Hong Kong",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ziyin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mai",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Chinese University of Hong Kong",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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