International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Editors

Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai | National Tsing Hua University

Ning Yu | Pennsylvania State University

Hongming Zhang | Macau University of Science and Technology

Executive Editor

Hongming Zhang | Macau University of Science and Technology

Editorial Assistant

Shuxiang You | Macau University of Science and Technology

Editorial email address: ijchl@hotmail.com

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International Journal of Chinese Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal. The journal aims to publish high-quality scientific studies of Chinese linguistics and languages (including their dialects). With this aim, the journal serves as a forum for scholars and students in the world who study all areas of Chinese linguistics and languages from all theoretical perspectives. Studies to be published in this journal can be theoretical or applied, qualitative or quantitative, synchronic or diachronic, or any combinations of the above, and interface studies, such as those looking into syntax-semantics interface, syntax-phonology interface, semantics-pragmatics interface, are encouraged. As such, this is a comprehensive and general Chinese linguistics journal which serves as a true international forum for all Chinese linguistics scholars and students regardless of their theoretical and topical interests.
It is a bilingual journal and its official languages will be English and Chinese. This journal also upholds a double-blind peer-review policy.

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics publishes its articles Online First.

《国际中国语言学报》旨在发表研究中国语言（包括汉语和少数民族语言及方言）的高质量论文，每年两期，每期一百六十页。本刊为全世界从各种理论角度研究中国语言和语言学的学者、学生提供一个学术研讨平台。所刊论文将涵盖理论或应用研究、定性或定量研究、共时或历时研究，尤为重视各种视角和方法的界面研究（如句法与语义、语法与音系、语义与语用等）。因此，它是一个全方位综合性的中国语言学刊物，为业内同行提供一个名副其实的国际学术论坛，无论他们的理论价值取向为何。
《国际中国语言学报》是双语刊物，主要语言为英文，也会发表一定数量的中文稿件（约四分之一）。本刊采用双向匿名评审制。

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ISSN: 2213-8706 | E-ISSN: 2213‑8714

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl

6 October 2025

Word learning and motivation through multimodal input for novice Chinese language learners

Ching-I Huang & Tianlin Wang | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 256–285

Cloze test and self-assessment as measures of L2 Chinese proficiency: A contextualized approach for university language programs

Zhiying Qian | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 315–345

Understanding unintended and unsuccessful ironies among Chinese primary school children: Age difference and impact of interlocutors’ social status

Ningzi Sun, Rong Yan, Samad Zare & Huichao Bi | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 217–241

Enhancing Mandarin tone acquisition: Computer-assisted pronunciation training in self‑directed L2 learning

Yao Wu, Henghua Su & Hui Yin | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 286–314

Mandarin-speaking two-year-olds’ comprehension of complement control: A perspective from preferential looking

Xiaolu Yang, Jingying Xu & Rushen Shi | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 189–216

The effect of metacognitive instruction on Singapore secondary students’ Chinese listening performance and metacognitive awareness

Limei Zhang | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 242–255

Jing Jin & Sihui (Echo) Ke (eds.). 2025. Chinese Language Education and Second Language Chinese Acquisition: An Interface with Chinese Linguistics

Reviewed by Shengnan Xiao | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 346–354

L1 and L2 perspectives on the development of Chinese language acquisition

Henghua Su | IJCHL 12:2 (2025) pp. 185–188

10 June 2025

增价型使役态的形态句法研究：——基于类型学视角

葛平平 | IJCHL 12:1 (2025) pp. 117–175

The phonology (prosody)-syntax interface in children with developmental language disorder

Chuqiao Chen & Yang Yang | IJCHL 12:1 (2025) p. 94

Split Reduplicant Hypothesis: Evidence from tetrasyllabic reduplicated adjectives in Taiwanese

Adæmrys Chihjen Cheng | IJCHL 12:1 (2025) pp. 66–93

Labeling through percolation

Liching Livy Chiu | IJCHL 12:1 (2025) pp. 38–65

Three yěs in Mandarin

Zhaole Yang | IJCHL 12:1 (2025) pp. 1–37

Giorgio Francesco Arcodia & Bianca Basciano. 2021. Chinese Linguistics: An Introduction

Reviewed by Nianyi Wang & Bo Hu | IJCHL 12:1 (2025) pp. 176–183

5 December 2024

崔世珍笔下的明代中期北京话

汪维辉 | IJCHL 11:2 (2024) pp. 280–312

On the finiteness of complement clauses in Chinese

Bo Hu & Hong Chen | IJCHL 11:2 (2024) pp. 247–279

Towards a reconstruction of Proto-Coastal Min voiced coronal affricate and fricative initials

Bit-Chee Kwok | IJCHL 11:2 (2024) pp. 151–167

On word stress in Mandarin: Evidence from the differences between qingsheng 轻声 and qingyin 轻音

Fang Yan | IJCHL 11:2 (2024) pp. 190–246

The unmarked fixed segmentism in Chinese reduplication: Case for base-reduplicant correspondence

Yuxia Yin | IJCHL 11:2 (2024) pp. 168–189

Victor Junnan Pan. 2019. Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese: Cartography and Minimalism

Reviewed by Changsong Wang | IJCHL 11:2 (2024) pp. 313–318

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Editorial info

Editors

Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai | National Tsing Hua University

Ning Yu | Pennsylvania State University

Hongming Zhang | Macau University of Science and Technology

Executive Editor

Hongming Zhang | Macau University of Science and Technology

Editorial Assistant

Shuxiang You | Macau University of Science and Technology

Editorial Board

Zhiming Bao | National University of Singapore

Huba Bartos | Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Walter Bisang | University of Mainz

Redouane Djamouri | CRLAO, EHESS, Paris

San Duanmu | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ik-sang Eom | Hanyang University, Seoul

Jianhua Hu | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

C.-T. James Huang | Harvard University

Ray Iwata | Kanazawa University

Thomas Hun-Tak Lee | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yafei Li | University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yen-hui Audrey Li | University of Southern California

Chinfa Lien | National Tsing Hua University

Jo-wang Lin | Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

Danqing Liu | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

Feng-hsi Liu | University of Arizona

Haihua Pan | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jiaxuan Shen | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

Feng Shi | Nankai University

Rint Sybesma | Leiden University

Chiu-yu Tseng | Academia Sinica, Taipei

Hongjun Wang | Peking University

Jie Zhang | University of Kansas

Qingzhi Zhu | The Education University of Hong Kong

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