Li-mei Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Li-mei Chen is involved.
Articles
2020 Testing the applicability of third tone sandhi at the intonation boundary: The case of the monosyllabic topic Language and Linguistics 21:4, pp. 639–654 | Article
The purpose of this study is to test the applicability of Tone Three Sandhi (T3S) when the critical syllable is a monosyllabic topic preceding a topic boundary. A recitation task from 37 native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin was employed. The results from human judgements indicated that the… read more
2017 Processing conjunctive entailment of disjunction Language and Linguistics 18:2, pp. 269–295 | Article
In a sentence where the disjunction huo ‘or’ appears under the negation mei ‘no’ (e.g.: Ta mei chi qingjiao huo qiezi. ‘He did not eat green peppers or eggplants.’), the sentence is globally ambiguous between the conjunctive interpretation and the disjunctive interpretation. The primary goal of… read more