2010
DOI: 10.1017/s0332586510000156
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A study of Swedish speakers' learning of Chinese noun classifiers

Abstract: Chinese noun classifiers are an obligatory category associated with nouns. Studies have shown that achieving a full understanding and good mastery of Chinese noun classifiers is difficult for both young and adult L2 learners. This study examines the learning strategies used by 30 Swedish adults for a period of two months. Their learning results are compared to 30 bilingual children's production of Chinese noun classifiers. The adult learners exhibit a normal top–down learning fashion, in which they fail to acq… Show more

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“…The observation that the syntactic structure (numeral classifier noun) is acquired early and that specific classifiers are replaced by the more general classifier, namely ge or go respectively, is also made for second language learners and for other heritage learners. Gao (2010) who reports on the second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese in Sweden and Li and Lee (2001: 372) who report on heritage Cantonese in England, observe that classifier omission occurs very infrequently in their data. Li and Lee (2001) mention that two participants do not use classifiers at all, but these speakers speak very little Cantonese.…”
Section: The Nature Of Sortal Classifiersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The observation that the syntactic structure (numeral classifier noun) is acquired early and that specific classifiers are replaced by the more general classifier, namely ge or go respectively, is also made for second language learners and for other heritage learners. Gao (2010) who reports on the second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese in Sweden and Li and Lee (2001: 372) who report on heritage Cantonese in England, observe that classifier omission occurs very infrequently in their data. Li and Lee (2001) mention that two participants do not use classifiers at all, but these speakers speak very little Cantonese.…”
Section: The Nature Of Sortal Classifiersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The complex classifier associations with nouns have consequently caused noun categorizations to be linguistically unconventional. Studies show that native speakers of Chinese tend to take a cognitively-based bottom-up approach as a strategy to the learning of classifiers while second language learners of Chinese tend to take a top-down approach but often find their learning outcome inefficient (Soh and Gao, 2009;Gao, 2010;Quek and Gao, 2011). The cognitive approach taken for the design of the database is based on the findings of empirical studies on Chinese classifier learning by adults and children of both native and non-native speakers of Chinese.…”
Section: Classifier-based Classification Of Noun Categoriesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is an ontological base on which classifiers and nouns are associated with (Sowa, 2000;Huang and Ahrens, 2003;Philpot et al, 2003;Nichols et al, 2005), while measure word associations with nouns could be simply based on the notion of quantification. Understanding the differences between the two concepts can help learners of Chinese increase their awareness of the semantic and cognitive bases of classifier associations with nouns (Gao, 2010;Gao, 2011;Quek and Gao, 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Compared to L2 English classroom studies, there is much less L2 Chinese research; but there has been a considerable number of studies focusing on L2 Chinese pedagogy. There is relatively more research focusing on Chinese classifiers learning (Gao, 2010;Zhang & Lu, 2013), but limited has concerned the teaching (Tio & Lakshmanan, 2021;Zhang & Jiang, 2016;Zhou, 2022). Only two quasiexperimental studies (Zhang & Jiang, 2016;Zhou, 2022) have examined the CL approach with Chinese classifiers specifically, and evidenced that the approach was conductive to learning outcome compared to the traditional approach.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%