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L2 Representations and Processing of Chinese Nominal Phrases by Speakers of Classifier and Non-Classifier Languages
A central question in second language (L2) acquisition is: What is easy and what is hard in L2 acquisition (DeKeyser, 2005)? Various answers and accounts have been provided, including the Interface Hypothesis (IH; Sorace, 2011), the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH; Lardiere, 2009), and the …
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How Plurality Is Encoded in Classifier Languages: A Case Study of Mandarin Chinese
… In Chapter 1, I introduce the concept of classifier languages, grammatical number, general number (or number neutrality) and why the study of plurality in classifier languages is crucial to develop our understanding on the syntactic structure of noun phrases in general. Then, I present the …