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The Unit of Processing in Chinese
Edited by Tianlin Wang
[International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:1] 2024
► pp. 130–142
Book review

Nan Jiang (Ed.). Advances in Chinese as a second language: Acquisition and processing. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. ISBN 1-4438-5346-1

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 | State University of New York
Published online: 17 June 2024
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Appendix. Chapter list of Jiang (2014)
Yang, B., & Wu, Q. (2014). Acquiring the Perfective Aspect Marker Le in Different Learning Contexts. In N. Jiang (Ed.), Advances in Chinese as a Second Language: Acquisition and Processing (pp. 10–32). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Google Scholar
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