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Morpho-lexical evidence for Proto-Korean-Japanese

Francis-Ratté, Alexander ( 2016-07 )

The hypothesis that Japanese and Korean share a common linguistic origin remains highly controversial, with detractors such as Vovin (2010) criticizing a lack of shared functional morphemes and phonological problems in ...

Native Chinese speakers' perception of Chinese idiom usage by foreign language learners

Zhang, Xin ( 2016-07 )

This article investigates how a specific group of native Chinese speakers perceive the usage of four-character Chinese idioms, chengyu, as social markers employed by foreign learners of Chinese to build their second-culture ...

Referring to Cinderella in L2 Japanese: A preliminary study

Nakayama, Mineharu; Yoshimura, Noriko; Tsuchiya, Shinsuke ( 2016-07 )

This study reports how English-speaking learners of intermediate Japanese refer to the subject noun referents previously introduced within a given discourse. Tsuchiya, Yoshimura & Nakayama (2015) and Nakayama, Yoshimura & ...

The Sinification of Japanese: Non-linear increase in the usage of Sino-Japanese loanwords

Huang, Evelyn ( 2016-07 )

This paper examines the Sino-Japanese (SJ) loanwords frequencies in literary works from Early Middle Japanese, in response to data cited in Frellesvig (2010). Frellesvig claims that lexical frequency of SJ loanwords increases ...