Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

This chapter deals with a discussion of key concepts and theoretical considerations of
heritage learner pragmatics. It focuses on heritage language context, outlining what know …

This article reports an empirical study investigating L2 acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese
shì… de cleft construction by adult English-speaking learners within the framework of the …

Two recent books (Jiang, 2014, Advances in Chinese as a second language; Wang, 2013,
Grammatical development of Chinese among non-native speakers) provide new resources …

The Chinese 是shì… 的de cleft construction is notoriously difficult for Chinese as a
Foreign/Second Language (CFL/CSL) learners to acquire due to its syntactic properties and …

This dissertation investigates whether English-dominant heritage speakers (HSs) of
Mandarin have selective advantages over proficiency-matched adult second language …

According to the Interface Hypothesis in the field of bilingualism, the interface connecting a
linguistic module with a language-external domain (eg, syntax-discourse) will present …

Aims: This study investigates object ellipsis in English and Korean speakers' second
language (L2) Chinese speech production and the effects of first language (L1) influence in …

The current study investigates second language acquisition of Chinese object ellipsis to
probe the development of features transferred from learners' native language without robust …

In Chengdu Chinese, degree intensifiers for APs/VPs are attested to pair with three different
types of sentence-final particles (SFPs), ie, the FinP-level, the FocP-level and the ExclP-level …