Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Edited by Boping Yuan and Yanyu Guo
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 3:2 (2020) v, 162 pp.
Yanyu Guo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yanyu Guo is involved.
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Articles
2025 Disentangling aspect and tense in L2 acquisition: A feature reassembly approach to perfective markers le and guo in L2 Chinese grammars Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
This article reports on an empirical study investigating the second language (L2) acquisition of the Chinese perfective markers le and guo and their aspectual/temporal features by English-speaking learners, under the framework of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere, 2008, 2009). English… read more
2023 Asymmetric transfer and development of temporal-aspectual sentence-final particles in English-Cantonese bilinguals’ L 3 Mandarin grammars Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:4, pp. 576–606 | Article
Aiming to shed new light on the discussion on transfer at initial stages of third language (L3) acquisition and development at later stages, this article reports on an empirical study of L3 acquisition of Mandarin temporal-aspectual sentence-final particles (SFPs) le, ne and láizhe by English… read more
2020 Facilitative transfer only? L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final particle clusters by English-Cantonese bilinguals Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Yuan, Boping and Yanyu Guo (eds.), pp. 261–289 | Article
This study investigates transfer effects and later development in English-Cantonese bilinguals’ L3 Mandarin grammar. Three types of Mandarin sentence-final particle clusters are involved as the target structures. The results show that L3 learners with the knowledge of Cantonese behave in a less… read more