| Автор | Gao, Helena H. |
| Дата выпуска | 2010 |
| dc.description | Chinese noun classifiers are an obligatory category associated with nouns. Studies have shown that achieving a full understanding and good mastery of Chinese noun classifiers is difficult for both young and adult L2 learners. This study examines the learning strategies used by 30 Swedish adults for a period of two months. Their learning results are compared to 30 bilingual children's production of Chinese noun classifiers. The adult learners exhibit a normal top–down learning fashion, in which they fail to acquire the complex semantic and cognitive meanings embedded in the classifiers. The children, on the other hand, apply cognitive strategies with a bottom–up approach. The adults’ learning of classifiers lags surprisingly far behind their general level of Chinese proficiency. This study can be used as a reference for future studies on the conceptual and cognitive aspects of Chinese language acquisition by speakers whose native languages are not classifier languages. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Копирайт | Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2010 |
| Тема | bilingual acquisition |
| Тема | bottom–up strategy |
| Тема | Chinese |
| Тема | cognitive strategy |
| Тема | conceptual system |
| Тема | language acquisition |
| Тема | measure word |
| Тема | noun classifier |
| Тема | semantic transparency |
| Тема | top–down strategy |
| Название | A study of Swedish speakers' learning of Chinese noun classifiers |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0332586510000156 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1502-4717 |
| Print ISSN | 0332-5865 |
| Журнал | Nordic Journal of Linguistics |
| Том | 33 |
| Первая страница | 197 |
| Последняя страница | 229 |
| Аффилиация | Gao Helena H.; Nanyang Technological University |
| Выпуск | 2 |
