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SUMMARY:L2 Acquisition of Applicative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese - 
 Yuhsin Huang (FAMES)
DTSTART:20141114T160000Z
DTEND:20141114T180000Z
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CONTACT:Woramon Prawatmuang
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, I will present the experiment design\, preli
 minary results and insights/restrictions of the pilot study for my ongoing
  PhD project\, which aims to look into how English-\, Spanish-\, and Korea
 ns-speaking learners acquire applicative constructions in Mandarin Chinese
 . It is reported that all four languages choose different types of applica
 tive heads when introducing non-core arguments\, while Spanish shares more
  similarities in the choice with Chinese than the other two languages do. 
 On this basis\, I'd like to examine the effect of L1 transfer including th
 e role of inflectional morphology and lexical scope of syntactic generaliz
 ations. Comprehension test and production test are employed in the current
  study in the hope of tapping both explicit and implicit knowledge of L2er
 s. The pilot study was conducted among 10 native speakers of Taiwanese Man
 darin and the results correspond to the analysis of Chinese applicative co
 nstruction\, thus validating the design of test sentences in the experimen
 t.
LOCATION:Room 7 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern 
 Studies (FAMES)
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