Reviews adolescent literature about China to find a newer, more positive, and less ideologically biased approach to the Chinese and their culture. It includes a bibliography of 25 titles. (RAA)

As it has been lamented that there has been no explicit formulation of rules for students to follow regarding the Chinese particles "zhe,""ne," and "de," an attempt is made here to do so. (PJM)

Describes the journalism program at Peking University, where students are recruited from among workers, peasants, and soldiers who have had more than five years' experience working in any field. (KS)

Investigates the role of phonetics for children learning to read Chinese. Reveals that children name phonetically regular Chinese characters more accurately than irregular ones; phonetic-related errors were the most dominant type. Suggests Chinese youngsters rely on phonetics for sound cues in naming Chinese characters; phonological awareness…

Three studies tested the proposition that cultural frame shifting is moderated by perceived compatibility between the two cultural orientations or bicultural identity integration. Results found that Chinese American biculturals who perceived their cultural identities as compatible responded in culturally congruent ways to cultural cues, while…

Two experiments were conducted to test Chinese children's comprehension of count-and mass-classifiers. Participants were Chinese-speaking children ages 3 thru 8, plus 16 adults. Results cohere with the linguistic analysis that the count-mass distinction is relevant in Chinese grammar. Results also cohere with the current theory in cognitive…

Investigates the performance of a character-based Chinese text retrieval scheme in which monogram keys and bigram keys are encoded into document signatures. Tests and verifies the theoretical predictions of the optimal weight assignments and the minimal false hit rate in experiments using a real Chinese corpus for disyllabic queries of different…

Statistically measured the degree of simplification of Chinese characters since the 1950s in relation to their frequency of occurrence. Found that the simplification tendency in both the simplified and traditional sets of characters is positively related to the frequency of their use. (11 references) (MDM)

Based on Hsieh's theory, this paper studies the historical aspect of verb copying in Chinese. Discussed are the theory of interaction, contemporary structure of a grammar, function and structure of verb copying, and analogy as both a type of interaction and a mechanism for creating various patterns of verb copying. (37 references) (LB)

Investigates the distribution of existential polarity wh-phrases (EPWs) in Chinese that behave like negative polarity items, examining the distribution of Chinese EPWs and arguing that using EPWs is felicitous if the local propositions in which they appear do not entail existence of a referent satisfying the EPW description. The paper considers…

The study focused on five elementary Mandarin-speaking students' development as writers over a two-year period in US classrooms. Mandarin speakers who came to the US in 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grades demonstrated some language loss in their Chinese writing. We found differences in terms of sentence complexity, character complexity, rhetorical features,…

The production of passive sentences by children with specific language impairment (SLI) was studied in two languages, English and Cantonese. In both languages, the word order required for passive sentences differs from the word order used for active sentences. However, English and Cantonese passive sentences are quite different in other respects.…