@article{7d87f33b745e4f7688d86a3bff9671c1,
title = "L2 acquisition of Zhe in mandarin Chinese: A corpus study",
abstract = "This paper examines the semantic and syntactic properties of the aspect marker -zhe in Mandarin Chinese as well as L2 adult learners{\textquoteright} acquisition of -zhe using data from the Academia Sinica corpus and a learner corpus compiled by the Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University. -Zhe sentences were categorized into three major patterns — V-zhe, V1-zhe-V2, and V1-zhe-V1-zhe-(jiu-)V2, with each further divided into sub-types. Major findings were: (a) Usage of the various types of -zhe produced by the highest proficiency level learners in the corpus was closest to that of native speakers{\textquoteright}. (b) The rate of V-zhe occurrence increased with the learners{\textquoteright} proficiency level. (c) The rate of V1-zhe-V1-zhe-(jiu-)V2 occurrence decreased with the learners{\textquoteright} proficiency level. Error analysis revealed additional insights. These findings suggest that L2 teaching of Mandarin must take the various patterns of -zhe and the semantic and syntactic properties of the verbs occurring with -zhe into consideration.",
keywords = "Aspect marker -zhe, L2 acquisition, Learner corpus, Mandarin Chinese",
author = "Li, {Jen I.} and Hsieh, {Miao Ling}",
note = "Funding Information: This study was funded by the ?Aim for the Top University Project? and the ?Center of Learning Technology for Chinese? of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), sponsored by the Ministry of Education, and also supported by the ?International Research-Intensive Center of Excellence Program? of NTNU, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. (NSC 103-2911-I-003-301), whose financial support is greatly appreciated. An earlier version of this paper was presented at The 8th International Conference on Internet Chinese Education (ICICE 2013). We are grateful for the comments given by the audience. Our gratitude also goes to the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. Of course, any remaining errors are ours. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015, National Taiwan Normal University. All Rights Reserved.",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.6241/concentric.ling.41.1.02",
language = "English",
volume = "41",
pages = "27--61",
journal = "Concentric: Studies in Linguistics",
issn = "1810-7478",
publisher = "臺灣師範大學英語學系",
number = "1",
}