Yan Jiang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yan Jiang plays a role.
Articles
2023 The pedagogy of training Chinese students’ intonation online Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:3, pp. 332–339 | Article
This paper focuses on how the web-based intonation training occurred in the research project by Jiang and Chun (2023). It describes the pedagogical design, materials and activities, as well as the overall training plan. It also evaluates the effectiveness of this pedagogy. The findings have… read more
2015 Acquisition of L2 Mandarin Chinese tones with learner-created tone visualizations Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 1:1, pp. 86–114 | Article
This paper reports on a study of 35 Mandarin Chinese learners who (1) created pitch curves of their spoken word tones and (2) compared their pitch curves with those of native speakers while practicing pronunciation. Following a pretest, the learners received training for 20–25 minutes weekly over… read more
2015 The Bound Variable Hierarchy and Donkey Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2:2, pp. 159–192 | Article
Cheng and Huang (1996) argue that both unselective binding and E-type pronoun strategies are necessary for the interpretation of natural language sentences and claim that there exists a correspondence between two sentence types in Chinese and the two strategies, namely that the interpretation of… read more
2001 The bare past as an ideological construction in Hong Kong discourse Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches, Dirven, René †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), pp. 117 ff. | Article
2001 Ideological Ground and Relevant Interpretation in a Cognitive Semantics Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches, Dirven, René †, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu (eds.), pp. 107–140 | Article