Ziyin Mai
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ziyin Mai plays a role.
2024 Protracted development in the heritage lexicon: Resultative verb compounds in school-age heritage Chinese children and their input Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
Research on heritage language acquisition at the school age has shown protracted development and early stabilisation in morphosyntax and the lexicon. Our study examined the properties of resultative verb compound (RVC), a structure at the crossroads of the lexicon and morphosyntax, in… read more
2022 The Mandarin ba -construction in school-age heritage speakers and their parental input Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:3, pp. 377–405 | Article
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
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
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 | Chapter
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