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Presentation 2017-07-23 11:40
Comprehension and Production of Chinese Relative Clauses by Heritage Chinese Speakers
Kazunori Suzuki (Tokyo Inst. of Tech./JSPS), Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo Univ.), Michiko Fukuda (Bunkyo Univ.), Yinshi Jiang (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) TL2017-32
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(in English) The current study examines heritage Chinese speakers’ linguistic knowledge of relative clauses (RCs) in Chinese in terms of their comprehension and production. Previous heritage language studies have suggested that the key factors for heritage language attrition are the age of arrival and language environment. A production task and a comprehension task were conducted to six heritage Chinese speakers living in Japan. Results of the experiments showed that both native Chinese speakers and heritage Chinese speakers generally produced Subject-RCs using passives, even when Object-RCs were expected, and that heritage Chinese speakers had difficulty with Object-RCs, which can be explained by the structural distance hypothesis (SDH) but not by the linear distance hypothesis (LDH). Moreover, production data of heritage Chinese speakers such as well-formed noun phrase (NP) modifications without RCs partially indicate heritage language attrition.
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(in English) relative clauses / heritage language / Chinese / sentence production and comprehension / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 149, TL2017-32, pp. 97-100, July 2017.
Paper # TL2017-32 
Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2017-07-22 - 2017-07-23 
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Place (in English) NINJAL 
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Topics (in English) Human Language Processing and Learning 
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Conference Code 2017-07-TL 
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Title (in English) Comprehension and Production of Chinese Relative Clauses by Heritage Chinese Speakers 
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Keyword(1) relative clauses  
Keyword(2) heritage language  
Keyword(3) Chinese  
Keyword(4) sentence production and comprehension  
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1st Author's Name Kazunori Suzuki  
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology/Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo Inst. of Tech./JSPS)
2nd Author's Name Makiko Hirakawa  
2nd Author's Affiliation Chuo University (Chuo Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Michiko Fukuda  
3rd Author's Affiliation Bunkyo University (Bunkyo Univ.)
4th Author's Name Yinshi Jiang  
4th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
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Date Time 2017-07-23 11:40:00 
Presentation Time 60 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2017-32 
Volume (vol) vol.117 
Number (no) no.149 
Page pp.97-100 
#Pages 4 
Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL) 

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