The difficulty and the beauty of Chinese lies in the simultaneous concreteness and ambiguity of each graph. (Author)

A significant relationship exists between students' attitudes toward teaching and their performance during training. (CK)

Syntactic priming of Chinese nouns and verbs was investigated in word recognition and production. Disyllabic compound words were presented after syntactically congruent, incongruent, or neutral auditory contexts, with a zero delay between offset of the context and onset of the target. Significant priming was observed in both tasks, including…

Analysis of six cross-linguistic properties characterizing the head verb in the resultative construction in Chinese shows that the first verb, and not the second verb, should be analyzed as the head verb. (15 references) (Author/CB)

Discussion of Chinese information retrieval proposes a relaxed segmentation process which extracts the longest words and also the short words implied. Experiments show that information retrieval based on this segmentation gives a slightly higher effectiveness than n-grams or bigrams, and requires less time and space for document and query…

Argues that the syllable has rich internal structure that may vary from language to language. Crucial evidence comes from phonological processes, such as partial reduplication, that target sub-strings of the syllable. In the case of Fuzhou, careful analysis of sub-syllabic processes provides a convincing argument for a highly articulated structure…

Distinguishes two types of language, V-to-I type versus V-to-V type, with a view to deriving two distinct patterns of associating specific interpretations with subject positions. (Author/VWL)

Describes the development of new statistical formulas for identifying two- and three-character words in Chinese text by performing stepwise logistic regression using a sample of sentences that had been manually segmented. Concludes that the new contextual information formulas are substantially better than the mutual information formula.…

Provides a complex analysis of the semiotic relationship between a word and the potential meaning that a word carries. Discusses Chinese words as a form, creating and carrying a venue for broad philosophical interpretation. (Author/VWL)

The topic chain is a frequently used structure in Chinese. In this article, its structural characteristics and its use in written narrative text are examined. Three major claims are made: (a) The topic of a chain does not have to overtly occur in the chain-initial clause as commonly believed; (b) depending on the context, a zero noun phrase (NP)…

The literature on postcolonialism covers a diverse set of geographic areas, cultures, timeframes, and economic and political circumstances. Within the context of this literature, this article focuses on two territories which underwent colonial transition right at the end of the twentieth century, and moved not to sovereignty but to reintegration…

Focuses on the Chinese as an American ethnic group and the socialization of Chinese American children. Considers four main socialization environments shaping members of the Chinese American population: traditional China, the People's Republic of China (PRC), the PRC in the era of communist decline, and Chinese American communities. Presents…

The complexity of Chinese orthography has hindered the progress of research in Chinese to the same level of sophistication of that in alphabetic languages such as English. Also, there has been no publicly available resource concerning the decomposition of Chinese characters, which is essential in any attempt to model the cognitive processes of…

This document is designed to provide assessment materials for specific Grade 4 outcomes in the Chinese Language and Culture Nine-year Program, Grades 4-5-6. The assessment materials are designed for the beginner level in the context of teaching for communicative competence. Grade 4 learning outcomes from the Chinese Language and Culture Nine-year…