The L2 acquisition of the Chinese aspect marking

Suying Yang

The L2 acquisition of the Chinese aspect marking

Suying Yang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

By analyzing corpus data, we have shown that the tendencies of restricting perfective past marking to Accomplishments and Achievements and imperfective marking to Statives and Activities as described by the Aspect Hypothesis (Shirai, 1991; Andersen & Shirai, 1996), undesirable in the acquisition of various languages, are desirable in the acquisition of a language like Chinese, because these tendencies coincide with the natural occurrence patterns of-le and-zhe. We argue that different languages may observe the same natural language principle (Bybee's Relevance Principle) in different ways, rendering the learner tendencies desirable or undesirable in the acquisition processes. Based on our new observations, we propose some modifications to the Aspect Hypothesis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014
Editors	Prachya Boonkwan, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Thepchai Supnithi
Publisher	Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University
Pages	299-308
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9786165518871
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014 - Phuket, Thailand, Phuket, Thailand Duration: 12 Dec 2014 → 14 Dec 2014

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014

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Conference	28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014
Country/Territory	Thailand
City	Phuket
Period	12/12/14 → 14/12/14

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Language and Linguistics
Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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Yang, S. (2014). The L2 acquisition of the Chinese aspect marking. In P. Boonkwan, W. Aroonmanakun, & T. Supnithi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014 (pp. 299-308). (Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014). Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University.

Yang, Suying. / The L2 acquisition of the Chinese aspect marking. Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014. editor / Prachya Boonkwan ; Wirote Aroonmanakun ; Thepchai Supnithi. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 2014. pp. 299-308 (Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014).

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Yang, S 2014, The L2 acquisition of the Chinese aspect marking. in P Boonkwan, W Aroonmanakun & T Supnithi (eds), Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014. Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, pp. 299-308, 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014, Phuket, Thailand, 12/12/14.

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Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014. ed. / Prachya Boonkwan; Wirote Aroonmanakun; Thepchai Supnithi. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 2014. p. 299-308 (Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014).

Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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