Smithfield, Rhode Island: Bryant University, 2009. — vi; 208 p.The 21st North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-21) was held at Bryant University on June 6-8, 2009. A total of 135 proposals were submitted to the conference organizing committee. Out of them seventy were selected for presentation at the conference, which covered a full range of issues in Chinese linguistics and applied linguistics and represented scholars from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, North America, and UK.Invited papers
Yen-Hwei Lin. Loanword adaptation and phonological theory
Hongyin Tao. Core vocabulary in spoken Mandarin and the integration of corpus-based findings into language pedagogy
Phonetics and Phonology
Yufen Chang. The phonology of ABB reduplication in Taiwanese
Yen-Chen Hao. Tonal adaptation of English loanwords in Cantonese
Ting L. Huang. Prosodic influences on Chinese tongue twisters
Chien-Hui Lee. The reconstruction of sk- and kr- clusters about Fang Kuei Li
Yu-Leng Lin. Tests of analytic bias in native Mandarin speakers and native southern Min speakers
Hsiu-Hsueh Liu 劉秀雪. 漢語鼻尾小稱與詞根的互動
Chin-Wei Wu. Partial-reduplication with fixed segmentism in Chinese dialects - an optimality theory approach
Huili Zhang 张慧丽.偃师方言的儿化及相关问题
Studies in language acquisition
Agnes Weiyun He. Conversational repair: where modality and morality converge
Jidong Chen and Ruixi Ai. Encoding motion and state change in L2 Mandarin
Po-Ting Chen. Topic and topic-comment structures in first language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
Hsiang-Ting Andrea Wu. Roles of pictures and native language in lexical processing for elementary American learners
Study in historical linguistics
Jung-Im Chang. Grammatical changes reflected in the chapters "Yaodian" (堯典) and "Gaoyao mo" 皋陶謨 in the Shangshu (尚書) and relevant chapters in Shiji 史記
