Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. SLA Theories as Related to Chinese
Chapter 1. The Theoretical Landscape of Second Language Acquisition
ZhaoHong Han
Part II. Chinese Phonology
Chapter 2. De-stress in Mandarin: Clitics, Cliticoids and Phonetic Chunks
Hana Třísková
Chapter 3. The Effects of Tonal Markedness in Second Language Chinese Tones
Hang Zhang
Chapter 4. From Phonological Studies to Teaching Mandarin Tone: Some Perspectives on the Revision of the Tonal Inventory
Carlotta Sparvoli
Part III. Semantic Aspects and Vocabulary
Chapter 5. Adjectival Category
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Bianca Basciano
Chapter 6. Chinese Vocabulary Acquisition and Teaching: Basic Concepts and Research Results
Chiara Romagnoli
Part IV. Chinese Grammar
Chapter 7. The Grammar of Chinese Nouns
Chaofen Sun
Chapter 8. Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language: Replication and Extension
Wenying Jiang
Chapter 9. The Instantiation of Binding Through Pragmatic and Syntactic Processes
Darcy Sperlich
Chapter 10. L2 Acquisition of Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Feng-hsi Liu
Part V. Pragmatic Aspects
Chapter 11. Development of Pragmatic Competence: Compliment Responses by L2 Learners of Chinese
Xiaoping Gao
Chapter 12. Intercultural Communicative Competence and Emotion Amongst Second Language Learners of Chinese
Wei-Lin Melody Chang and Michael Haugh
Chapter 13. Foundations for Content Learning in Chinese: Beyond the European Base
Jane Orton, Yin Zhang and Xia Cui