The Acquisition of Chinese as a First and Second Language

• Other Authors: Wen, Xiaohong (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Language; lexical access; second language speech; fluency; accuracy; complexity; information structure; child language acquisition; Mandarin Chinese; word order; Chinese as a foreign language; consciousness-raising; obligatory and forbidden contexts; perfective aspect marker; rule induction; Mandarin consonants; English CFL learners; L2 perception and production; Chinese; listening; metacognition; metacognitive strategy; strategy training; Mandarin; polysemy; verb semantics; L2 Chinese; descriptive writing; metadiscourse; cohesion; local; global; text; interactive; interactional; sentence-final particle; Chinese heritage speakers; features; n/a
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This volume, through highly selective and rigorous review processes, has collected eight empirical studies showcasing research advances in multiple domains including child first language, adult additional language, and heritage language acquisition. The studies are theoretically motivated and have a...