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Hsu, Dong-Bo – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
Three experiments on structural priming in Mandarin-speaking 5-year-olds were conducted to test the priming as implicit learning hypothesis. It describes a learning mechanism that acts on a shared abstract syntactic representation in response to linguistic input using an equi-biased Mandarin SVO-"ba" alternation. The first two…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Priming, Language Processing
Chen, Sun-I – 1986
To determine formal principles of discourse processing and production, a study reviewed theories in various disciplines related to language and/or thought and thereby rationalized an approach of quantitative matrix analysis to the problems caused by discrepant discourse structures encountered in second language learning. Statistical analyses of…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Chinese, Communication Research, Communism