Acquiring temporal meanings without tense morphology: the case of L2 Mandarin Chinese
This article reports on an experimental study addressing the second language acquisition of Mandarin temporality. Mandarin Chinese does not mark past, present, or future with dedicated morphemes; the native English of the learners does. It was hypothesized that, in their comprehension, learners woul...
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2015.
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