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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"L2 Mandarin Speakers"”.
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Syntactic Attrition in L2 Mandarin Speakers
… how syntactic skill was maintained or lost by L2 Mandarin Chinese learners over time. In addition, this study endeavored to discover how a learner's L1 affects the attrition process of word order in Mandarin Chinese. To find out how certain Chinese syntactic structures were subject to attrition …
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Definiteness and Specificity in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
… an area less studied than second language (L2) acquisition, by investigating the acquisition of (in)definiteness and (non-)specificity by L2 and L3 Mandarin speakers with prior knowledge of Cantonese and/or English. While English has an article system marking the [±definite] features but not …