Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and Chinese as a Second Language (L2 Chinese)

汉语语言学与二语习得研讨会

Easter Term, 2019 

The Research Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and Chinese as a Second Language (L2 Chinese) are held by the Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese research group of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge. The aims of these seminars are to provide a platform for researchers to discuss recent development in the field, to present their work and to receive feedback from fellow researchers. The seminars are supervised by Dr Boping Yuan.

All are welcome!

• Friday, 3rd May, 2019 in Room 7 at 4pm (ends at 5pm)
  Transfer at initial stages of L3 Mandarin: the acquisition of temporal-aspectual sentence final particles by English-Cantonese bilinguals
  Dr Yanyu Guo & Dr Boping Yuan
   
• Friday, 3rd May, 2019 in Room 7 at 5pm (ends at 6pm)
  Encoding of anaphoric and associational definiteness in English speakers’ L2 Mandarin grammars
  Jingting Xian & Dr Boping Yuan
   
• Friday, 24th May, 2019 in Room 7 at 4pm (ends at 5pm)
  L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles ba and ne by Cantonese-English bilinguals
  Dr Yanyu Guo & Dr Boping Yuan
   
• Friday, 24th May, 2019 in Room 7 at 5pm (ends at 6pm)
  Indefinite NPs as subjects in L2 and L3 Mandarin grammars: Empirical evidence for the sources of transfer in L3A
  Jingting Xian & Dr Boping Yuan
   
• Friday, 14th June, 2019 in Room 7 at 4pm (ends at 5pm)
  A processing problem or a representational problem? L2 acquisition of syntax-semantics interface in the Chinese ba construction by English-speaking learners
  Tongkun Liu
   
• Friday, 14th June, 2019 in Room 7 at 5pm (ends at 6pm)
  Covert subjects and objects resulting from TP ellipsis in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence of the declarative/procedural model
  Lilong Xu
   
• Friday, 21st June, 2019 in Room 7 at 4pm (ends at 5pm)
  TBC
  Dr Boping Yuan
    
• Friday, 21st June, 2019 in Room 7 at 5pm (ends at 6pm)
  TBC
  Dr Yanyu Guo

For further information, contact:

Tongkun Liu (E-mail: tl394@cam,.ac.uk)
PhD Student, Chinese Studies
Department of East Asian Studies