Dongchen Yao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dongchen Yao is involved.
Articles
2025 Who says men can never change? A corpus-based study of recent changes in the use of the Chinese plural suffix men Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles, pp. 582–610 | Article
Language change in Modern Standard Chinese has been an area of research interest for several decades. However, the field continues to be characterized by a focus on written Chinese, with a lack of systematic, fine-grained analyses of specific morphosyntactic features in spoken Mandarin and a… read more
2025 Number marking in L2 English of the speakers of two classifier languages: A learner corpus study Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:2, pp. 476–502 | Article
This paper explores the number marking challenges faced by L2 learners of English whose L1 is one of the classifier languages Mandarin Chinese (henceforth Chinese) or Bahasa Indonesia (henceforth Indonesian). It examines whether these groups differ in their marking of English number, and how the… read more