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This study tests the hypothesis of linguistic relativity along two lines of research: a) how L2 learners of Chinese and English, respectively, syntactically package semantic components for caused motion (cause, manner, path) in... More >>

When a context of a strongly constrained sentence structure is formed, N400 as the ERP component of the follow-up word of the structure will be reduced in amplitude. Two accounts can explain this: a passive activation account a... More >>

In its development for more than five decades, numerous empirical language transfer studies have obtained many solid findings in L2 production; however, these findings often concern linguistic expressions but lack deep psycholi... More >>

Semantic processing is the ultimate goal of language communication. Chinese characters and Japanese kanji both contain semantic clues in their semantic radicals, However, as Japanese is learned phonologically instead of morphol... More >>

Data from the world’s languages illustrate that demonstratives grammaticalize as temporal auxiliaries/copulas, as focus markers, and as visual evidentials. However, these studies were done on the basis of individual languages o... More >>