The book will be of great interest to linguists, psycholinguists, sinologists, and scholars who work on Chinese as a second language. This book will bridge a gap in both child language acquisition and the syntactic analysis of Chinese reflexive ziji. The first experimental study on Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of long-distance bound reflexives and its blocking effect
The book will be of great interest to linguists, psycholinguists, sinologists, and scholars who work on Chinese as a second language. This book wi...
Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterances, such as questions or statements, as well as speakers' attitudes and feelings.
This edited volume takes studies in prosody on Asian languages as well as examples from other languages. It brings together the most recent research in the field and also charts the influence on such diverse fields as multimedia communication and SLA.
Intended for a wide audience of linguists that includes neighbouring disciplines such as...
Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterances...
Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin Chinese from a cartographic perspective. Different functional projections hosting sentence-final particles, implicit operators and other informational components are hierarchically ordered according to the "Subjectivity Scale Constraint" functioning at syntax-discourse interface. Three questions will be essentially addressed: What is the order? How to determine such an order? Why such an order? This research not only gives a thorough...
Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin...
