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

Lent 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, 8th February, 2019 in Rooms 8&9 at 4pm (ends at 6pm)
  L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles by Cantonese-English bilinguals
  Dr Yanyu Guo
   
• Friday, 15th February, 2019 in Rooms 8&9 at 4pm (ends at 6pm)
  Interfaces in the Chinese Ba Construction and Their Representations in English-Speaking Learners’ L2 Chinese Grammars
  Tongkun Liu
   
• Friday, 22nd February, 2019 in Rooms 8&9 at 4pm (ends at 5pm)
  Covert objects and VP ellipsis in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence of the incremental model of L2 speech production mechanisms
  Lilong Xu
   
• Friday, 22nd February, 2019 in Rooms 8&9 at 5pm (ends at 6pm)
  Definiteness in Heritage, L2 and L3 Mandarin grammars: Empirical evidence for the source of transfer in L3A
  Jingting Xiang
   
• Friday, 8th March, 2019 in Rooms 8&9 at 4pm (ends at 5pm)
  Absence of L1 transfer of ellipsis at L2 Chinese initial stages: Evidence from L2 Chinese oral production by English and Korean speakers
  Dr Boping Yuan
   
• Friday, 8th March, 2019 in Rooms 8&9 at 5pm (ends at 6pm)
  Temporal-Aspectual Sentence Final Particles in English and Cantonese Speakers’ L3 Mandarin Chinese
  Dr Yanyu Guo
   
• Wednesday, 13th March, 2019 in Rooms 8&9 at 4pm (ends at 6pm)
  Please note the chage of day for this week's seminar
  L2 acquisition of gapping constructions in Mandarin Chinese by English speakers
  Chenyang Zhang 

For further information, contact:

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