Chung-Yu Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chung-Yu Chen is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 12. There isn’t a problem with indefinites in existential constructions in L2-English Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.), pp. 290–313 | Chapter
This is an exploratory study of how both native English speakers and L1-Mandarin L2-English learners judge different types of indefinites in both existential there-constructions and copular constructions with an indefinite subject. Unlike English, Mandarin lacks an a/one distinction, has two… read more
2019 The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and second language learners Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 225–251 | Chapter
This study investigates (a) whether heritage speakers (HSs) and second language learners (L2ers) acquire the properties of Mandarin reflexives and (b) whether HSs have an advantage over L2ers in acquiring the binding properties of Mandarin reflexives: taziji ‘himself/herself’, which requires local… read more