Xiangjun Deng
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xiangjun Deng plays a role.
Article
2019 Selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in the acquisition of the Chinese cleft construction by heritage speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:2, pp. 202–227 | Article
This study investigates effects of selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in heritage grammar. Mandarin Chinese has a shì…de cleft construction, which, despite its superficial similarities with the it-cleft in English, is subject to additional conditions. Four experimental tasks… read more