In this project, I’m interested in Mandarin-speaking children’s knowledge of attitude verbs, and how do they come to learn these attitude verbs. For the first question, I conducted behavioral studies exploring children’s understanding of juede “think” (collaborative work with Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffery Lidz).

How do children learn the subcategorization property of attitude verbs (e.g. know selects both declaratives and interrogatives, but think only selects declaratives)? I examined children’s input to see what kind of information is available to children (collaborative work with Nick Huang).