| Vol. 32 No. 1 January 2006 Special Topic: CHINESE LINGUISTICS |
| Vol. 32 No. 1 January 2006 Special Topic: CHINESE LINGUISTICS |
2006.01.31 |
| Editors in Chief: |
| Lillian M. Huang, National Taiwan Normal University &
Elizabeth Zeitoun, Academia Sinica |
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 ARTICLES |
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Author |
Pages |
Key words |
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| The Metrical Structure of Changhua Folk Verse |
Yuchau E. Hsiao |
1-29 |
corpus, folk verse, Optimality Theory, constraint ranking, metrical structure |
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| Directionality in Chengdu Tone Sandhi |
Hui-shan Lin |
31-67 |
Chengdu, tri-tonal sandhi, quadri-tonal sandhi, directionality, Optimality Theory |
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| Contraction and Backgrounding in Taiwan Mandarin |
Karen Steffen Chung |
69-88 |
contraction, Taiwan Mandarin, backgrounding, elision, topic-comment, utterance-final, discourse, phonotactics |
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| The Middle Construction in Mandarin Chinese and the Presyntactic Approach |
Jen Ting |
89-117 |
middle construction, presyntactic approach, argument structure, patient subject construction |
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| Are There Dangling Topics in Mandarin Chinese? |
Ray Rui-heng Huang, Jen Ting |
119-146 |
topic construction, dangling topic, subject in Chinese, PP-reduced form |
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| Interplay between Forward and Backward Transfer in L2 and L1 Writing: The Case of Chinese ESL Learners in the US |
Fred Jyun-gwang Chen |
147-196 |
language transfer, forward transfer, backward transfer, the U-shape curve, Principal Branching Direction (PBD), Principle of Temporal Sequence (PSE), crosslinguistic learner performance comparison, contrastive research, metalinguistic and crosslinguistic |
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