Lei Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lei Wang is involved.
Articles
2025 Perceptual confusion of Mandarin coda nasals in societal bilingualism Chinese Language and Discourse 16:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
The perception of L2 Mandarin coda nasals (-n and -ŋ) by L1 Wuxi Wu (with only -n) and L1 Fuqing Min (with only -ŋ) speakers was investigated. Results of two experiments revealed that the younger generation of both Wuxi and Fuqing speakers identified Mandarin coda nasals more accurately than the… read more
2022 Formation of Modern Chinese speech-quotative nǐ shuō ‘you say’ and feedback-seeking nǐ shuō ‘you tell me’: Two grammaticalizational pathways Language and Linguistics 23:4, pp. 743–777 | Article
In Modern Chinese, four construction types involving nǐ shuō may be distinguished. In this study, it is argued that the prosodically unseparated speech-quotative nǐ shuō (S1) develops from the prosodically separated speech-quotation nǐ shuō (S3) through a hypothesized complementation pathway… read more