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NACCL Proceedings Online – NACCL-23 (2011)

Proceedings of the 23th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23)

Edited by

  • Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

June 17-29, 2011

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Distributed by NACCL Proceedings Online

  • The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

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Volume 1

Part I. Corpus Linguistics

1. Tao Ming and Liang Chen   (p. 1-17) 

The ordering of multiple relative clauses modifying the same head NP in Chinese follows information-flow principles

2. Shan Wang, Sophia Lee and Chu-ren Huang   (p. 18-34)

A corpus-based analysis of semantic type system of event nouns: a case study on huìyì

3. Wen Jin   (p. 35-50)

A statistical argument for the homophone avoidance approach to the disyllabification of Chinese

Part II. Historical Linguistics

4. Scott DeLancey   (p. 51-64)

The origins of Sinitic

5. Jeeyoung Peck   (p. 65-83)

Analogy and reanalysis in the postposing of durative and iterative adverbials in the history of Chinese

Part III. Phonetics and Phonology

6. Shawn Yung-hsiang Chang   (p. 84-96)

Distinction between Mandarin Tones 2 and 3 for L1 and L2 listeners

7. Ping Jiang and Aishu Chen   (p. 97-109)

Representation of Mandarin intonations: boundary tone revisited

8. Yah-ting Shih and Eunjong Kong   (p. 110-119)

Perception of Mandarin fricatives by native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin and Taiwanese

9. Ying-Shing Li   (p. 120-137)

Investigating Taiwan Southern Min subsyllabic structure using maximum entropy models and wordlikeness judgments

10. Chiung-Yao Wang and Yen-Hwei Lin   (p. 138-155)

Variation in Tone 3 Sandhi: the case of prepositions and pronouns

11. Seth Wiener   (p. 156-172)

Grass-mud horses to victory: the phonological constraints of subversive puns

12. Seth Wiener and Ya-ting Shih   (p. 173-190)

Divergent places of articulation: [w] and [ʋ] in modern spoken Mandarin

Part IV. Psycholinguistics

13. Chien-Jer Charles Lin   (p. 191-199)

Chinese and English relative clauses: processing constraints and typological consequences

14. Yowyu Lin   (p. 200-214)

Locality versus anti-locality effects in Mandarin sentence comprehension

15. Yu-an Lu   (p. 215-226)

The psychological reality of phonological representations: the case of Mandarin fricatives

Part V. Second Language Acquisition

16. Ying Liu and Qian Du   (p. 227-236)

Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners’ representation of voice in argumentative writing

17. Hongying Xu   (p. 237-249)

The acquisition of some properties of the BA construction by English-speaking learners of Chinese

18. Jin Zhang   (p. 250-261) 

L2 acquisition of Chinese locative inversion


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Volume 2

Part I. Semantics and Pragmatics

19. I-Hsuan Chen   (p. 1-14)

The semantic constraints on the VERB + zhĕ nouns in Mandarin Chinese

20. Noah Constant   (p. 15-29)

On the independence of the Mandarin aspectual and contrastive sentence-final ne

21. Chao Li   (p. 30-47)

Postverbal constituents in Mandarin Chinese

22. Yi-Hsien Liu   (p. 48-65)

Topic-comment and the Chinese existential construction

23. Lyih-Peir Luo   (p. 66-81)

An aspectual approach to the postverbal locative zai-phrase

24. Tianqi Yang   (p. 82-92)

Non-literal use of “jade”: a study on “玉” (yu) in Chinese idioms

Part II. Sociolinguistics and Socio-pragmatics

25. Litong Chen   (p. 93-104)

The imposition of Cantonese on Mandarin in the city of Guangzhou

26. Si Chen and Caroline Wiltshire   (p. 105-122)

Differences of tone representation between younger and older speakers of Nanjing dialect

27. Meihsing Kuo   (p. 123-132)

Children in arguments with peers: young children’s strategies as opposer and opposee

28. Woan-Tyng Lee   (p. 133-150)

Ideology in address forms — a case study of two political talk shows in Taiwan

Part III. Studies on Regional Varieties of Chinese

29. Yuchau Hsiao   (p. 151-163)

Cross-anchoring of tones in Hoiliuk triplication

30. Yenchun Lin   (p. 164-174)

Superlatives in Taiwanese

31. Xinyuan Shi   (p. 175-189)

Neutralization of T3 and T5 sandhi in Suzhou Chinese

32. Yutian Tan   (p. 190-207)

The origin and nature of high rising diminutive tone change in Siyi dialect

33. Hui-ling Yang   (p. 208-223)

Is Chinese a negative concord language?

Part IV. Syntax

34. Hsu-Te Cheng   (p. 224-240)

Argument ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese

35. Chen-chun E   (p. 241-257)

The YUE-construction in Mandarin Chinese

36. Qiaona Yu   (p. 266-278)

Rule conspiracy in Chinese time expressions

Part V. Translation Study on Buddhist Sutras

37. Shu-Fen Chen and Bernard Montoneri   (p. 279-295)

A study of some punctuation errors found in the Taisho and CBETA Diamond Sutra based on Sanskrit-Chinese comparative studies