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    Acquisition of Chinese characters: the effects of character properties and individual differences among second language learners.
    (Frontiers in psychology, 2015-01) Kuo, Li-Jen; Kim, Tae-Jin; Yang, Xinyuan; Li, Huiwen; Liu, Yan; Wang, Haixia; Hyun Park, Jeong; Li, Ying
    In light of the dramatic growth of Chinese learners worldwide and a need for cross-linguistic research on Chinese literacy development, this study drew upon theories of visual complexity effect (Su and Samuels, 2010) and dual-coding processing (Sadoski and Paivio, 2013) and investigated (a) the effects of character properties (i.e., visual complexity and radical presence) on character acquisition and (b) the relationship between individual learner differences in radical awareness and character acquisition. Participants included adolescent English-speaking beginning learners of Chinese in the U.S. Following Kuo et al. (2014), a novel character acquisition task was used to investigate the process of acquiring the meaning of new characters. Results showed that (a) characters with radicals and with less visual complexity were easier to acquire than characters without radicals and with greater visual complexity; and (b) individual differences in radical awareness were associated with the acquisition of all types of characters, but the association was more pronounced with the acquisition of characters with radicals. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed.
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    Americanization of French Theory and the Rise of “Chinese Postism”
    (Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 2024-01-01) Liu, K; Wei, D
    Chinese Postism refers to Chinese versions of poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, three major western theoretical trends prefixed with “post.” Chinese Postism is largely retranslations of English translations (and interpretations) of French theories of poststructuralism and postmodernism, as well as postcolonialism as American appropriation of French theories. Revisiting the French- American-Chinese journey of theory may help uncover the broader political and ideological changes underlying the intellectual and academic trends.
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    An Experimental Investigation into the Scope Assignment of Japanese and Chinese Quantifier-Negation Sentences
    (Languages, 2024-03-01) Chen, Y
    Quantifier-Negation sentences such as all teachers did not use Sandy’s car are known to allow an inverse scope interpretation in English. However, there is a lack of experimental evidence to determine whether this interpretation is allowed in equivalent sentences in Japanese and Chinese. To address this issue, this study conducted a sentence–picture matching truth value judgment experiment in both Japanese and Chinese. The data suggested that Japanese Quantifier-Negation sentences do allow inverse scope readings, which suggests that the subject may be interpreted within the scope of negation. In contrast, Chinese Quantifier-Negation sentences prohibit inverse scope readings, which is in accordance with the strong scope rigidity consistently observed in this language. This paper also discussed how to develop a valid experiment for investigating scope ambiguities.
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    An experimental investigation of the Deep Double-o Constraint in Japanese causative constructions
    (Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2024-05-27) List, Abbey; Chen, Yunchuan
    Abstract The Double-o Constraint (DoC) was proposed to explain the ungrammaticality of having two or more noun phrases (NPs) marked by the accusative case marker -o in a single Japanese clause. It has been argued that there are two types of DoCs: the Surface Double-o Constraint (SDoC) and the Deep Double-o Constraint (DDoC). The DDoC prohibits two accusative arguments in a single argument structure and is not affected by the number of accusative case markers on the surface. The evidence is from Japanese causatives. Our study conducted an experiment to test the DDoC and found that it may only apply to some native Japanese speakers.
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    Black Muslims and the Angels of Afrofuturism
    (The Black Scholar, 2023-04-03) McLarney, E; Idris, S
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    Chinese Exceptionalism
    (2024-03-04) Kang, Liu
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    Educator Tip - The latest in language learning technology
    (The Language Educator) Knapczyk, Kusum
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    Transforming Emotional Regime: Pai Hsien- yung’s Crystal Boys
    (Queer Cats Journal of LGBTQ Studies) Jiang, Linshan
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    Western Theory’s Chinese Transformation: Postscript
    (CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 2023-12-01) Liu, K
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    针对华裔学生的美国大学中文教材
    (Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報). The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA) Liu, Yan; Ji, Jingjing; Wu, Grace; Liang, Min-Min
    摘要 近些年来，美国大学中文课中传承语学习者的数量不断增加 (Xiang, 2016)。然而，现有的传承语教材数量比较少，且目前美国大学中文项目所使用的华裔中文教材也存在一定的局限性 (Luo et al., 2019)。因此，编写新的大学中文传承语教材势在必行。本文首先回顾了相关传承语教学以及中文传承语学习者的研究，然后对现有的中文传承语教材进行评估，识别其局限之处。最后，基于以上分析以及与传承语教学法和教材编写原则相关的研究，为未来中文传承语教材所应遵循的编写原则、课文话题和角度、面向群体、教学内容和活动所应遵循的标准和体例等方面提出一些建议。