Published: 2015-12-01

The Acquisition at the Interface of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by French Adult Learners

Xinyue Cécilia Yu

Abstract

The semantically fine-grained ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese show complex interaction between lexical semantics, constructional semantics and syntactic frames. This study examines the acquisition process of the syntax as well as the semantics of these constructions by launching two experiments with French leaners of Chinese. The experiment results reveal a ‘syntax-before-semantics’ learning process and the important role of input in implicit learning.

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Yu, X. C. (2015). The Acquisition at the Interface of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by French Adult Learners. Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 1(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/TAPSLA/article/view/5112

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)
Published: 2017-02-04


ISSN: 2450-5455
eISSN: 2451-2125
Ikona DOI 10.31261/tapsla

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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