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Acquisition of Japanese Vocabulary by Chinese
Background Learners. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Dec 2008, Pages: 196
As is widely known, Japanese and Chinese not only
share the common logographic orthography
called “kanji” or “hanzi” respectively, but also
share a number of kanji compounds as cognates, many
of which share the same or similar meaning. The
major objective of this research is to investigate
the roles of transfer and the difficulty in Chinese
background learners’use and acquisition of
Japanese kanji compounds and kanji words. In
particular, under what condition and how do CBLs
transfer Chinese words into Japanese counterparts is
investigated. The findings indicate that the
transferability of Chinese words into their Japanese
counterparts is constrained by multiple factors.
Further, both positive and negative transfer
influence Chinese background learners’ production,
comprehension, and interlanguage construction of
Japanese vocabulary in a complex manner.
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