Chunsheng Yang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chunsheng Yang is involved.

Journal

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

Edited by Dustin Crowther

ISSN 2215-1931 | E‑ISSN 2215‑194X

Title

The Acquisition of L2 Mandarin Prosody: From experimental studies to pedagogical practice

Chunsheng Yang

This book examines the acquisition of L2 Mandarin prosody, a less explored area in SLA. While acknowledging that tone acquisition is one of the most important aspects in acquiring L2 Mandarin phonology, the book demonstrates that phrase- and utterance-level prosody is equally important.… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 1] 2016. xviii, 175 pp.

Yang, Chunsheng, Han Luo and Wenhua Jin 2025 Identification and evaluation of L1 and L2 Chinese accents Chinese Language and Discourse 16:2, pp. 181–200 | Article

This study investigates the identification and evaluation of native language (referred to as L1) and second language (referred to as L2) Chinese accents by Chinese judges. Eleven Chinese speakers, including two Beijing Mandarin speakers, two L1-English L2-Chinese speakers, two L1-Korean… read more

Jin, Wenhua, Chunsheng Yang, Yiping Zhang and Wayne Wenchao He 2023 Acquisition of three Chinese de structures by English-speaking learners Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 58:1, pp. 23–60 | Article

This study examines English speaking learners’ acquisition of three Chinese de structures, including Nominalization, Cleft, and Relative Clause. Our findings reveal different acquisition patterns for the three structures and identify several major factors such as structural similarities and… read more

Yang, Chunsheng 2021 书评 (2018): 汉语语音习得与教学研究 Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 56:2, pp. 168–172 | Review

Yang, Chunsheng and Jing Chu 2016 Testing rhythm metrics in L2 Mandarin Chinese Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2:2, pp. 208–224 | Article

Yang, Chunsheng 2014 Language attitudes toward Northeastern Mandarin and Putonghua (PTH) by young professionals Chinese Language and Discourse 5:2, pp. 211–230 | Article

This study examines the language attitudes of young professionals in three cities in China towards Northeastern Mandarin (NEM) and Putonghua (PTH) (i.e., the standard language in China). It confirms that NEM has lower status as compared to PTH. However, the young professionals in Northeast China… read more