A study on classifier acquisition in Chinese learning

• Main Author: Ouyang, Shixiao
• Other Authors: Helena Gao Hong
• Format: Student Research Poster
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Chinese classifier; Cognitive linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95056; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8983
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Chinese learners are always unable to distinguish Chinese noun classifiers from measure words, because they only treat classifiers as grammatical components in the language. This inappropariate correlation makes it particularly difficult for foreign Chinese learners to master noun classifiers, as th...