Haiyang Ai
List of John Benjamins publications for which Haiyang Ai plays a role.
2022 “Please let me know”: Lexical bundles in business emails by business English learners and working professionals International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
Lexical bundles are frequently recurring word sequences (e.g. as can be seen) that function as building blocks of discourse. This corpus-based study examined the use of four-word lexical bundles in business emails written by three groups of writers: intermediate business English learners,… read more
2019 Chapter 12. Linguistic metaphor identification in Chinese Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 247–265 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 8. Semantic and lexical processing of words across two languages in Chinese-English bilinguals Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages, Pae, Hye K. (ed.), pp. 163–176 | Chapter
The present fMRI study examined the neural correlates of semantic and lexical processing in unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals with two lexical decision tasks in both their languages. Results showed that when contrasted the participants’ responses to words with those of pseudo-words, there was… read more
2013 A corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in NNS and NS university students’ writing Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data, Díaz-Negrillo, Ana, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson (eds.), pp. 249–264 | Article
This paper reports on a corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in NNS and NS university students’ writing. We analysed 600 essays from the Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays using 10 syntactic complexity measures to investigate… read more