Xiangjun Deng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiangjun Deng is involved.
Articles
2019 Selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in the acquisition of the Chinese cleft construction by heritage speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:2, pp. 202–227 | Article
This study investigates effects of selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in heritage grammar. Mandarin Chinese has a shì…de cleft construction, which, despite its superficial similarities with the it-cleft in English, is subject to additional conditions. Four experimental tasks… read more
Realization of English past tense by Chinese–English heritage bilingual children: Evidence from longitudinal naturalistic data Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
Previous research has shown that past-tense inflection is particularly difficult for child learners of English whose L1 is Chinese, with persistent omission often attributed to cross-linguistic influence (CLI). Building on this literature, this study investigates how Chinese–English bilingual… read more