Si Chen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Si Chen plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 4. Influence of syntactic complexity on second language prediction Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning, Kaan, Edith and Theres Grüter (eds.), pp. 69–90 | Chapter
This study investigated the influence of syntactic complexity on prediction in second language (L2) processing. In a visual world eye-tracking experiment, we compared L2 listeners’ prediction while processing simple (e.g., The dancer will open/ get the present) vs. complex sentences (e.g., I know… read more
2019 A quantitative analysis of tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin and Nanjing Mandarin based on surface pitch contours and underlying pitch targets International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:2, pp. 183–220 | Article
Two statistical modelling methods are first used to quantify the third tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin in which the first falling-rising T3 becomes a rising T2 in the T3 + T3 disyllabic context. Growth curve analysis suggests non-neutralization of the surface F0 contours of the sandhi tone and… read more
2013 Tone realization in younger versus older speakers of Nanjing dialect Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics, Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (ed.), pp. 147–170 | Article
This article investigates differences of tone realizations and representations between younger and older speakers of Nanjing dialect, spoken in the city of Nanjing, China. We recorded thirty native speakers, divided into two groups according to their ages, reading monosyllabic and disyllabic words.… read more