Structural and semantic non-correspondences between Chinese splittable compounds and their English translations: A Chinese-English parallel corpus-based study

Xu, Jiajin; Li, Xiaochen

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“…They can function separately or collectively given different requirements to fulfill a certain direction. Recently (in 2021) a corpus named Yiyan English-Chinese Parallel Corpus was established with great efforts made by Beijing Foreign Studies University (Hereinafter referred to as Yiyan corpus) [8]. Unlike traditional parallel English-Chinese ones, which are slightly out-of-date and inadequate in scale, Yiyan corpus is characterized by its up-to-date and authentic materials of several genres, allowing the researchers to utilize flexibly.…”

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Exploring Pedagogical Approach in EFL Courses Based on Bilingual Parallel Corpus

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2023

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This paper is to examine the feasibility of bilingual parallel corpus as a data-driven approach targeting to comprehensively enhance English competence of EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. In particular, corpus turns out to be functional of assisting EFL learners in acquiring high-frequency words and the collocation and colligation, indicating that corpus can be considered to be optional in pedagogy, as well. Bilingual parallel corpus, more importantly, provides learners with an ideal tool to focus on the translation techniques based on the function of comparing the same words or similar conceptions in corpora of two languages, providing authentic texts to expound translation theories, terminologies and techniques. In addition, corpus implies the use of improving learners comprehension of original texts, further the reading proficiency. It also helps to extend the scope of reading based on the large quantity of authentic materials.

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Exploring Pedagogical Approach in EFL Courses Based on Bilingual Parallel Corpus

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“…Chinese SCs, which are known as "lihe ci" among Chinese linguists, like most Chinese words, are typically composed of two characters (or morphemes), and each character can stand alone as an individual word. They are commonly used as verbal structures in modern Chinese (Siewierska et al, 2010;Wang, 2011;Xu and Li, 2014). According to the syntactic relation between the two composing characters, SCs can be roughly grouped into three subtypes, verb-object SCs (V-O SCs), verb-complement (resultative or directional) SCs (V-C SCs) and subject-verb SCs (S-V SCs), among which V-O SCs are the most productive (Zhu, 2006;Wang, 2011).…”

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“…According to the syntactic relation between the two composing characters, SCs can be roughly grouped into three subtypes, verb-object SCs (V-O SCs), verb-complement (resultative or directional) SCs (V-C SCs) and subject-verb SCs (S-V SCs), among which V-O SCs are the most productive (Zhu, 2006;Wang, 2011). Zhu (2006) also identified a coordinative subtype, such as "swim, " in which the two morphemes are synonymous, but many linguists (e.g., Wang, 2011;Xu and Li, 2014) treat them as V-O structures as well. Thus, they are also grouped into the V-O subtype but labelled as pseudo V-O SCs in the current study.…”

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“…The length of the insertions ranged from one to four characters, and the average was two. Xu and Li (2014) have warned that the translations of split SCs are less stable than their non-split forms and thus we tried to limit the diversity of possible Spanish correspondences across individuals by manipulating the structure of the sentences. In addition, we also composed a "fake split form" involving the characters of , as in "ran a few steps."…”

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Spanish L2 Chinese Learners’ Awareness of Morpho-Syntactic Structures in the Reading Comprehension of Splittable Compounds

Dai

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Reading comprehension is never considered a simple task in linguists’ views as it requires a full set of linguistic knowledge, such as word decoding, understanding syntactic and morphological structures, and deriving proper meanings from these structures in a given context. Bearing the simple view of reading, the primary goal of this study is to explore whether the split presentation of Chinese splittable compounds influences the recognition of the compounds in second language (L2) Chinese reading comprehension, and how the reading skills, i.e., word decoding and linguistic comprehension, cooperate to complete this reading comprehension task. Splittable compounds (SCs) in Chinese are typically verbs composed of two constituents with limited separability. The separable property of SCs and their vague morpho-syntactic status are supposed to cause difficulties for L2 Chinese learners in recognizing the compounds. Especially for those whose native language manifests lexical integrity, the split presentation of the compounds may invite the L2 Chinese readers to process them with a mechanism different from that for their non-split forms. To the best of our knowledge, the efforts on investigating this issue are insufficient. In this study, 27 Spanish speaking L2 Chinese learners were invited to complete tasks including reading and interpreting 6 selected SCs in the split and non-split forms, rating their familiarities with each SC and reporting the syntactic category of the SCs based on their existing linguistic knowledge. The results, showed that the split presentation of SCs did cause challenges for L2 Chinese learners in recognizing the compounds in the reading process, regardless of their Chinese proficiencies. The L2 Chinese participants performed significantly worse in recognizing split SCs in salient Verb-Object structures than recognizing those in unsalient Verb-Object structures. These findings underscore the importance of linguistic comprehension in L2 Chinese in-text word reading comprehension and suggest words as the basic processing units.

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“…The establishment of the English-Chinese corpus [1] can provide a research platform to study the syntactic and semantic attributes of the English-Chinese sentences and the similarities and differences between English and Chinese. The abundant language information resources and corpus extraction in corpus not only provide language materials for both English and Chinese teaching [2,3,4], but also promote the development of machine translation [5]. The summarized appositive modes of English and Chinese structures have direct application value in English and Chinese translation.…”

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Classification and Extraction of Appositives based on English and Chinese Bilingual Corpus

Xiang¹

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 8th International Conference on Management, Education and Information (MEICI 2018)

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This paper studies sentence translation in English and Chinese bilingual corpus, analyzing appositive mode with automatic identification and extraction from the perspective of computer linguistics. Firstly, based on semantic concept in linguistics, this paper classifies the basic semantic types of appositives and systematically introduces the diversity of these structures. Natural language and graphics are employed to describe the algorithm. Examples of English and Chinese sentences can be embodied in the use of the Deterministic Parsing method to determine the process of the translation and extraction of appositive structure. This paper aims to not only promote the development of linguistic concepts, but also provide models for computer programmers to deal with natural language and promote the development of computational linguistics. The Appositives in English and ChineseEnglish appositives are noun modifiers. Appositives can be words, phrases, or clauses. An appositive usually goes after a modified antecedent, specifying nouns or noun phrases of identity, job title, appellation, etc. Appositives are usually embodied in the following way: the appositives are separated from their antecedents by the commas, indicating the ordinary appositive relationship. And sometimes the dash or the colon can be used with appositives to emphasize the role of appositive or to make longer pause. Sometimes certain leading words precede appositives to show the special meaning between 8th International Conference on Management, Education and Information (MEICI 2018)

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Structural and semantic non-correspondences between Chinese splittable compounds and their English translations: A Chinese-English parallel corpus-based study

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Exploring Pedagogical Approach in EFL Courses Based on Bilingual Parallel Corpus

Exploring Pedagogical Approach in EFL Courses Based on Bilingual Parallel Corpus

Spanish L2 Chinese Learners’ Awareness of Morpho-Syntactic Structures in the Reading Comprehension of Splittable Compounds

Classification and Extraction of Appositives based on English and Chinese Bilingual Corpus

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