Interlanguage and Learnability: From Chinese to English
Virginia Yip
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 11] 1995. xvi, 247 pp.
Virginia Yip
List of John Benjamins publications for which Virginia Yip plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism
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2023. Prosodic interaction in Cantonese-English bilingual children’s speech production. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles
This corpus-based study investigates intonation patterns in the production of Cantonese by Cantonese-English bilingual children. We examine the intonation patterns in eight simultaneous bilingual children acquiring a tonal (Cantonese) and an intonational language (English) from 2;0 to 3;0. Two… read more | Article
2022. The Mandarin ba-construction in school-age heritage speakers and their parental input. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3, pp. 377–405
Recent research has identified language development in school-age heritage children as an important yet missing link between child early bilinguals and adult heritage speakers. This study investigates the Mandarin ba-construction ([(NP1)-ba-NP2-VP]) through elicited narration among heritage… read more | Article
2018. Chapter 9. CHILDES for bilingualism. Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields, Miller, David, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice (eds.), pp. 183–202
The CHILDES archive has revolutionized the study of bilingual development. We review the available corpora and their properties, some methods that have been used in creating and analyzing corpus data, and the kinds of analyses that it has made possible. These points are illustrated with corpus data… read more | Chapter
2017. Noun-modifying clauses in Cantonese. Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 105–120
Whether relative clauses can be identified in Chinese is a recurrent question. We ask whether relative clauses are distinct from other noun-modifying clause constructions in Cantonese, one of many East Asian languages in which a noun can be preceded by a diverse range of modifying clauses. The… read more | Article
2013. . Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady, pp. 324–329
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2011. Chapter 8. The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin. The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, Kidd, Evan (ed.), pp. 197–226
We discuss three typological characteristics relevant to the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Cantonese and Mandarin: (i) the prenominal position of RCs; (ii) the availability of an internally-headed analysis for Cantonese object RCs; and (iii) Chinese RCs as a subset of noun modifying… read more | Article
2011. Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisition. Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 107–135
It is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contact-induced change. In this paper we address the poorly understood relationship between the individual and community-level processes, focusing on the… read more | Article
2009. Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisition. Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 366–395
It is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contact-induced change. In this paper we address the poorly understood relationship between the individual and community-level processes, focusing on the… read more | Article
1998. Acquisition of English Reflexive Binding by Cantonese Learners: Testing the Positive Transfer Hypothesis. Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge, Beck, Maria-Luise (ed.), pp. 165 ff.
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1995. I-interlanguage and typology: The case of topic-prominence. The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 17 ff.
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