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Preface |
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Structure of the book |
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Readership |
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To the Chinese language teacher |
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To the Chinese language student |
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To the Chinese linguistics teacher |
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Acknowledgements |
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Chapter 1 Introduction to linguistics and Chinese language |
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1 | (24) |
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1.1 Basic concepts of general linguistics |
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1 | (6) |
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1.1.2 What is linguistics |
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1.1.2.1 Some basic distinctions in linguistics |
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1.1.2.2 The scope of linguistics |
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6 | (1) |
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1.2 Second language acquisition |
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7 | (4) |
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1.2.1 Linguistics and language teaching |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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1.2.3 First language transfer |
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9 | (1) |
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1.2.4 L2 developmental errors |
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10 | (1) |
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1.2.5 Universal constraints and individual differences |
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10 | (1) |
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1.3 The Chinese language and dialects |
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11 | (6) |
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12 | (1) |
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1.3.2 The seven major dialects |
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13 | (1) |
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1.3.2.1 Mandarin (Northern dialects) |
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14 | (1) |
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1.3.2.2 Southern dialects |
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15 | (1) |
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1.4 The creation of the modern standard Chinese |
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17 | (4) |
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21 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Phonetics and phonology (I): Segmental features |
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25 | (30) |
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2.1 Basic concepts of phonetics and phonology |
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26 | (1) |
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2.2 Chinese syllables and segmental phonemes |
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27 | (13) |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (1) |
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2.2.2.1 Medial and the sihu classification system |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (1) |
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2.2.2.3 Syllabic terminals |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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2.2.3 Discrepancies between Pinyin spelling and pronunciation |
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37 | (1) |
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2.2.4 English-Chinese transliteration |
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38 | (2) |
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2.3 A historical view of Chinese sound annotation systems |
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40 | (4) |
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40 | (1) |
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2.3.3 Wade-Giles system (r) |
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41 | (1) |
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2.3.4 National romanization (Gwoyeu Romatzyh Ella) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (1) |
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2.4 Second language acquisition of Chinese segments |
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44 | (3) |
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2.4.1 L2 acquisition of vowels |
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44 | (1) |
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2.4.2 L2 acquisition of consonants |
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45 | (1) |
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2.4.3 Use of sound annotation systems in L2 acquisition of Mandarin |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (7) |
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Chapter 3 Phonetics and phonology (II): Suprasegmental features |
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55 | (32) |
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55 | (2) |
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3.1.1 What is a tone language? |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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3.2 Four Chinese phonemic tones: Citation form |
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57 | (3) |
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3.2.1 Phonetic properties and phonological representations of four tones |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (1) |
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3.3 Tones in context: Tone variations in connected speech |
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60 | (9) |
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3.3.1 The variants of Tone 3 and the Tone 3 Sandhi |
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61 | (1) |
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3.3.1.1 The Short-T3 and Long-T3 |
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61 | (2) |
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63 | (4) |
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3.3.2 Required tone sandhi: yi and bit |
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67 | (1) |
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3.3.3 Other tone-change processes |
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67 | (2) |
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3.4 Stress and intonation in Mandarin Chinese |
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69 | (3) |
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69 | (1) |
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3.4.2 Sentence-level stress and sentence-final intonation |
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69 | (1) |
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3.4.2.1 Contrastive stress in sentences |
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70 | (1) |
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3.4.2.2 Unstress Chinese syllables |
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71 | (1) |
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3.4.2.3 Sentence final intonation patterns |
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71 | (1) |
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3.5 The acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones |
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72 | (8) |
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3.5.1 Second language perception of Mandarin tones |
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73 | (1) |
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3.5.2 Four common difficulties in L2 tone production |
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74 | (1) |
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3.5.2.1 Issues related to the pitch range |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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3.5.2.4 The production of Tone 2 in sequences T2-T1 and T2-T4 |
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77 | (1) |
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3.5.3 General pedagogical suggestions on L2 Chinese prosody training |
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78 | (2) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (6) |
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Chapter 4 Chinese morphology |
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4.1 Basic concepts in morphology |
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87 | (3) |
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87 | (1) |
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4.1.2 Morphemes: The minimal units of meaning |
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88 | (2) |
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4.2 Morphological process: Compounding |
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4.2.1 Common types of compounds |
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92 | (4) |
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4.2.2 Difficulties in learning Verb-Object compounds |
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96 | (1) |
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4.2.2.1 Taking a direct object |
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97 | (3) |
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4.2.2.2 Separation of V-O constituents |
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100 | (1) |
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4.3 Morphological process: Affixation |
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101 | (8) |
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4.3.1 Derivational affixes |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (2) |
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4.3.2 Inflection-like morphemes |
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106 | (3) |
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4.4 Morphological process: Reduplication |
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109 | (4) |
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4.4.1 Reduplication of volitional verbs |
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109 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Reduplication of adjectives |
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110 | (2) |
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4.4.3 Reduplication of measure words (classifiers) and kinship terms |
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112 | (1) |
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4.5 Second language acquisition of Chinese vocabulary |
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113 | (8) |
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4.5.1 Approaches of L2 vocabulary development |
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114 | (1) |
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4.5.1.1 Aspects of vocabulary for L2 acquisition |
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114 | (2) |
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4.5.1.2 Several issues in the L2 Chinese vocabulary development |
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116 | (2) |
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4.5.2 Teaching Chinese vocabulary |
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118 | (1) |
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4.5.3 Learning strategies of vocabulary |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (7) |
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Chapter 5 Chinese syntax I |
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129 | (50) |
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5.1 Lexical categories, linear order, and constituency |
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129 | (5) |
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134 | (9) |
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5.2.1 Classifiers and mass vs. count |
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134 | (2) |
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5.2.2 Definiteness and referentiality |
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136 | (2) |
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138 | (5) |
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143 | (23) |
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5.3.1 Post-verbal constituents |
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143 | (1) |
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5.3.1.1 Objects and transitivity of verbs |
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143 | (3) |
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146 | (1) |
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5.3.1.3 Frequency and duration phrases |
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147 | (3) |
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5.3.1.4 Locative and directional phrases following certain verbs |
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150 | (2) |
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5.3.2 Pre-verbal constituents |
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152 | (1) |
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5.3.2.1 Manner and negation adverbs, and adverbs expressing a speaker's judgement |
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152 | (4) |
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156 | (1) |
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5.3.2.3 Prepositional phrases |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (2) |
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5.3.3.1 Perfective aspect marker -le |
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160 | (2) |
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5.3.3.2 Experiential aspect marker -gub |
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162 | (1) |
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5.3.3.3 Progressive aspect marker zdi |
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163 | (1) |
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5.3.3.4 Durative aspect marker -zhe |
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164 | (2) |
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5.4 Acquisition of Chinese noun phrases, verb complements and aspect marker -le |
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166 | (7) |
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5.4.1 Acquisition of Chinese noun phrases |
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166 | (1) |
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5.4.1.1 Acquisition of Chinese classifiers |
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167 | (1) |
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5.4.1.2 Acquisition of Chinese relative clauses |
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168 | (1) |
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5.4.2 Acquisition of verb complements |
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169 | (2) |
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5.4.3 Acquisition of aspect marker -le |
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171 | (2) |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (6) |
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Chapter 6 Chinese syntax II |
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179 | (38) |
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179 | (15) |
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6.1.1 Declarative sentences |
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179 | (1) |
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6.1.1.1 Subject, predicate, topic and comment |
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179 | (5) |
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6.1.1.2 Sentence final particles in declarative sentences |
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184 | (3) |
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6.1.2 Interrogative sentences |
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187 | (3) |
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6.1.3 Imperative sentences |
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190 | (2) |
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6.1.4 Complex and compound sentences |
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192 | (2) |
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6.2 Serial verb constructions |
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194 | (3) |
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6.2.1 Type one: Simultaneous or consecutive actions |
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194 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Type two: Causative construction |
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195 | (2) |
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6.3 Verb copying construction |
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197 | (4) |
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201 | (6) |
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6.4.1 Characteristics of the NPs following bd |
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202 | (2) |
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6.4.2 Characteristics of the VPs in the bd construction |
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204 | (1) |
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6.4.3 Discourse function of the bd construction |
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205 | (2) |
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6.5 The bei passive construction |
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207 | (2) |
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6.6 Acquisition of the Chinese bd and bei constructions |
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209 | (3) |
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6.6.1 Acquisition of the bd construction |
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209 | (2) |
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6.6.2 Acquisition of the bei passive construction |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (4) |
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Chapter 7 Chinese writing system |
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217 | (20) |
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7.1 History of Chinese script |
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217 | (2) |
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7.2 Formation of Chinese characters |
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219 | (4) |
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7.3 Strokes, components and radicals of Chinese characters |
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223 | (3) |
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7.4 Chinese script reforms |
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226 | (2) |
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7.5 Learning and teaching of Chinese characters |
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228 | (4) |
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7.5.1 Structural awareness in character learning |
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228 | (1) |
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7.5.2 Learners' strategies |
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229 | (1) |
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7.5.3 Pedagogical implications |
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230 | (1) |
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7.5.4 Handwriting and Pinyin-typing |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (1) |
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233 | (4) |
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Chapter 8 Chinese language in its social context |
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8.1 Introduction to Chinese pragmatics |
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237 | (9) |
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8.1.1 Context and direct/indirect speech acts |
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237 | (2) |
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8.1.2 Speech acts in Chinese |
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239 | (1) |
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8.1.2.1 Expressing gratitude |
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239 | (2) |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (3) |
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8.2 Chinese language variation |
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246 | (3) |
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8.2.1 Introduction to Chinese language variation |
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246 | (1) |
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8.2.2 Gender and Chinese language |
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247 | (1) |
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8.2.2.1 Gender differentiation in Chinese language |
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247 | (1) |
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8.2.2.2 Gender differences in Chinese language use |
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247 | (2) |
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8.3 Chinese language contact |
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249 | (2) |
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8.4 Chinese Internet language |
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251 | (5) |
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8.4.1 Chinese Internet lexicon |
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253 | (2) |
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8.4.2 Features of Chinese Internet language |
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255 | (1) |
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8.5 Chinese pragmatics acquisition and second language socialization |
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256 | (5) |
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8.5.1 Factors affecting the acquisition of Chinese pragmatic skills |
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257 | (2) |
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8.5.2 Research of Chinese socialization by learners |
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259 | (1) |
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8.5.3 Pedagogical implications |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (4) |
References |
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Index |
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