Columbus: Ohio State University, 2008. — xxi; 526 p. East Asian Studies Center.The 20th North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-20) was held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on 25-27 April 2008. NACCL-20 celebrated the twentieth anniversary of this annual conference and the conference’s first return to its birthplace at the Ohio State University.ISBN: 978-0-9824715-0-0Plenary and invited papers
Pulleyblank Edwin G. (plenary speaker & ICS lecture series speaker) Language as digital: a new theory of the origin and nature of human speech
Tai James H.-Y. (plenary speaker) The nature of Chinese grammar: perspectives from sign language
Li Yen-hui Audrey (plenary speaker). Case, 20 years later
Ernst Thomas (invited speaker). Adverbs and positive polarity in Mandarin Chinese
Sanders Robert (invited speaker). Tonetic sound change in Taiwan Mandarin: the case of tone 2 and tone 3 citation contours
Phonetics and phonology
Duanmu San. The spotty-data problem in phonology
Guo Lijuan and Tao Liang. Tone production in Mandarin Chinese by American students: a case study
Hung Tsun-Hui and Lee Chao-Yang. Processing linguistic and musical pitch by English-speaking musicians and non-musicians
Lee Chao-Yang, Tao Liang and Bond Z.S. Talker and contextual effects on identifying fragmented Mandarin tones
Liao Rongrong. Mandarin learners’ tonal patterns: an experimental study
Lin Yen-Hwei. Patterned vowel variation in standard Mandarin loanword adaptation: evidence from a dictionary corpus
Liu Joyce H.-C. and Wang H. Samuel. Speech errors of tone in Taiwanese
Poss Nicholas, Hung Tsun-Hui and Will Udo. The effects of tonal information on lexical activation in Mandarin
Wu Chen-huei. Filled pauses in L2 Chinese: a comparison of native and non-native speakers
Yang Chunsheng. Temporal cues of discourse boundaries in L1/L2 Mandarin speech
Word-formation and numeral classifiers
Liu Yi-Hsien. Number deletion and classifier realization in three Chinese dialects
Pirani Laura. Bound roots in Mandarin Chinese and comparison with European semi-words
Wang Lianqing. Historical and dialectal variantsof Chinese general classifiers ─ on the criteria of general classifiers
Yip Colum Chak Lam. Complicating the oversimplification: Chinese numeral classifiers and true measures
Some issues in second language acquisition
Jin Lingxia. Markedness and second languageacquisition of word order in Mandarin Chinese
Liang Neal Szu-Yen. The acquisition of Chinese shape classifiers by L2 adult learners
Zhang Yongfang. How Chinese native speakers handle written style material in reading and
its application in second language instruction
Sociolinguistics, signed language and language contact
Chan Marjorie K.M. and Xu Wang. Modality effects revisited: iconicity in Chinese sign language
Gao Liwei. Language change in progress: evidence from computer-mediated communication
Jay Jennifer W. Rapper Jin’s (歐陽靖) ABC: acquiring spoken Cantonese and transnational identity through restaurantculture and Hong Kong TV
Liao Silvie. A perceptual dialect study of Taiwan Mandarin: Language attitudes in the era of political battle
Qin Xizhen. Choices in terms of address: a sociolinguistic study of Chinese and American English practices
Yan Jing. Linguistic convergence and divergence in Guangzhou (Canton City): social variation of vernacular written Cantonese
Topics in historical linguistics
Chu Chia-ning 竺家寧. 早期佛經詞義的義素研究 ─ 與「觀看」意義相關的動詞分析
Herforth Derek. Working out basic patterns inClassical Chinese syntax: further data on the benefactive ditransitive in Late Zhou
Huang Yu-cheng ⿈育正. 現代漢語程度副詞「格外」的歷時演變過程及其認知解釋
Wu Sue-mei. Instrumentality: the core meaning of the coverb yi 以 in classical Chinese
Wu Xiaoqi. The word order of the ditransitive construction with geirevisited
Zhao Tong. Reconstruction of old Chinese back vowels
Zheng Rongbin. Zhongxian (中仙) Min dialect: a preliminary study of language contact and
stratum-formation
