Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Integrating Chinese linguistic research and language teaching and learning xiii
6. The emergence of verb argument structure in Mandarin Chinese 1
7. A corpus linguistics approach to the research and teaching of Chinese as a second language 13
8. Facilitating language learning 33
9. An ERP study of the processing of Mandarin classifiers 59
10. Explicit, implicit and metalinguistic knowledge in L2 Chinese 81
11. Metalinguistic awareness and self-repair in Chinese language learning 97
12. De-stressed words in Mandarin: drawing parallel with English 121
13. Prosody and discourse functions of ranhou 然后 145
14. Patterns of plural NP + dou (都) expressions in conversational discourse and their pedagogical implications 169
15. Prominence marking in second language Chinese tones 195
16. A multi-dimensional corpus study of mixed compounds in Chinese 215
17. Index 239