Xiangjun Deng
Biographic Data
| ID | 5889909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiangjun Deng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiangjun |
| FAMILY NAME | Deng |
| SIGNATURE | DENG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shenzhen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9693-5593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Realization of English past tense by Chinese–English heritage bilingual children
Previous research has shown that past-tense inflection is particularly difficult for child learners of English whose L1 is Chinese, with persistent omission often attributed to cross-linguistic influence (CLI). Building on this literature, this study investigates how Chinese–English bilingual children in the United States (US, n = 4) realize English past tense in naturalistic production between 2;8 and 6;11, focusing on CLI from their heritage la…
Input effects and unidirectional transfer in Mandarin–English heritage bilingual children
Aims and objectives: This study investigates the effects of fine-grained aspects of input and cross-linguistic influence on the placement of prepositional zai -phrase ( zai -PP) in heritage Mandarin. Methodology: Utterances with zai -PPs were extracted from transcripts of an elicited narration task administered with child heritage speakers of Mandarin ( n = 27, aged 4–14) and their parents ( n = 18) in the United Kingdom, and compared with those …
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech
The acquisition of quantifiers is a central topic in cognitive science. The present study investigated the emergence, frequency, and non-target-like production of the universal quantifiers all, every, and each in child English from a linguistic perspective, based on the data from longitudinal naturalistic observation of 10 English-speaking children and their caregivers. We found that the use of these quantifiers as adverbs or in adverbials genera…
The acquisition of the locative subject construction in Mandarin
Selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in the acquisition of the Chinese cleft construction by heritage speakers
This study investigates effects of selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in heritage grammar. Mandarin Chinese has a shì...de cleft construction, which, despite its superficial similarities with the it -cleft in English, is subject to additional conditions. Four experimental tasks elicited eighteen adult heritage speakers’ implicit knowledge of the word order and the temporal, telicity and discourse conditions associated with the…
An event-semantic account of spatial modification in the acquisition of Mandarin
This study investigates Mandarin-speaking children's knowledge of event semantics in interpreting spatial modifiers with zai ‘at’ after a posture verb or before a placement verb. The event-semantic principles investigated include subevent modification (Parsons, 1990) and aspect shift (Fong, 1997). We conducted an experimental study using modified forced choice, video choice, and elicited production techniques with five groups of children (two- to…
An aspectual account of ba and bei constructions in child Mandarin
This study examines the ba and bei constructions in Mandarin using data from the Tong corpus, a new multimedia longitudinal child language corpus. A unified aspectual account of the two constructions is proposed: both require telic predicates, and should thus correlate with the perfective rather than imperfective aspect for learners. Analysis of corpus and diary data reveals that Tong is generally sensitive to the telic requirement when he begins…
The linguistic encoding of space in child Mandarin
This study investigates the acquisition of Mandarin spatial phrases from the perspective of language universality and specificity. The potential language universals discussed in this study include aspect shift (
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The linguistic encoding of space in child Mandarin
This study investigates the acquisition of Mandarin spatial phrases from the perspective of language universality and specificity. The potential language universals discussed in this study include aspect shift (
An event-semantic account of spatial modification in the acquisition of Mandarin
This study investigates Mandarin-speaking children's knowledge of event semantics in interpreting spatial modifiers with zai ‘at’ after a posture verb or before a placement verb. The event-semantic principles investigated include subevent modification (Parsons, 1990) and aspect shift (Fong, 1997). We conducted an experimental study using modified forced choice, video choice, and elicited production techniques with five groups of children (two- to…
An aspectual account of ba and bei constructions in child Mandarin
This study examines the ba and bei constructions in Mandarin using data from the Tong corpus, a new multimedia longitudinal child language corpus. A unified aspectual account of the two constructions is proposed: both require telic predicates, and should thus correlate with the perfective rather than imperfective aspect for learners. Analysis of corpus and diary data reveals that Tong is generally sensitive to the telic requirement when he begins…
Selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in the acquisition of the Chinese cleft construction by heritage speakers
This study investigates effects of selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in heritage grammar. Mandarin Chinese has a shì...de cleft construction, which, despite its superficial similarities with the it -cleft in English, is subject to additional conditions. Four experimental tasks elicited eighteen adult heritage speakers’ implicit knowledge of the word order and the temporal, telicity and discourse conditions associated with the…
The acquisition of the locative subject construction in Mandarin
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech
The acquisition of quantifiers is a central topic in cognitive science. The present study investigated the emergence, frequency, and non-target-like production of the universal quantifiers all, every, and each in child English from a linguistic perspective, based on the data from longitudinal naturalistic observation of 10 English-speaking children and their caregivers. We found that the use of these quantifiers as adverbs or in adverbials genera…
Input effects and unidirectional transfer in Mandarin–English heritage bilingual children
Aims and objectives: This study investigates the effects of fine-grained aspects of input and cross-linguistic influence on the placement of prepositional zai -phrase ( zai -PP) in heritage Mandarin. Methodology: Utterances with zai -PPs were extracted from transcripts of an elicited narration task administered with child heritage speakers of Mandarin ( n = 27, aged 4–14) and their parents ( n = 18) in the United Kingdom, and compared with those …
Realization of English past tense by Chinese–English heritage bilingual children
Previous research has shown that past-tense inflection is particularly difficult for child learners of English whose L1 is Chinese, with persistent omission often attributed to cross-linguistic influence (CLI). Building on this literature, this study investigates how Chinese–English bilingual children in the United States (US, n = 4) realize English past tense in naturalistic production between 2;8 and 6;11, focusing on CLI from their heritage la…
Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Mandarin Chinese (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 works) · Verb (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)