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Front Matter (Volume 2, 2016)
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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 & ... -
Idiomatic expressions in translated manga: A preliminary study
Kim, Yangsun ( 2016-07 )This squib reports the uses of English idiomatic expressions observed in translated manga or comics. Assuming that the conversations in manga are samples of average daily conversations, the current findings may provide ... -
Brain activation in an intermediate-level Japanese learner – Correlation analysis of fNIRS data during written tests and conversation –
Hirata, Yu ( 2016-07 )This study is part of a project that aims to examine the similarity and/or dissimilarity in brain activation while participants take written tests and make conversation. Brain activation data were collected from one ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The epistemic use of yào in Mandarin Chinese and its theoretical implications
Xie, Zhiguo ( 2016-07 )The epistemic use of the Mandarin Chinese modal yào comes with typologically interesting properties. In this paper, the distribution and meaning of the epistemic use of yào will be described first. This use of yào is ... -
An historic historical linguist (and then some): James M. Unger
Quinn, Charles ( 2016-07 )