Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones - Beyond First-Language Transfer

In Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Hang Zhang offers a series of cross-linguistic studies to argue that there are factors influencing tone acquisition that extend beyond simple transfer of structures from learners' native languages.

About the author

Hang Zhang, Ph.D. (2013), is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics at George Washington University. She has published widely in academic journals including Second Language Research, Chinese as a Second Language, and International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Hang Zhang
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2018
• EAN: 9789004305977
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30597-7
• No. of pages: 162
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics