Thomas Hun-Tak Lee

List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas Hun-Tak Lee plays a role.

Journals

Asian Languages and Linguistics (ALaL)

Edited by Danqing Liu, Ailan Fu and Gong Cheng

ISSN 2665-9336 | E-ISSN 2665-9344

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics (IJChL)

Edited by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Ning Yu and Hongming Zhang

ISSN 2213-8706 | E-ISSN 2213-8714

Yearbook

Linguistic Variation Yearbook (LIVY)

General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck

ISSN 1568-1483 | E-ISSN 1569-9900

Articles

Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak and Zhuang Wu 2019 Chapter 11. The acquisition of nominal structure, word order and referentiality in Chinese: Corpus and experimental findings on the numeral phrase Interfaces in Grammar, Hu, Jianhua and Haihua Pan (eds.), pp. 301–340 | Chapter

The mapping between nominal structure, word order and referentiality in Mandarin Chinese is examined from an acquisition perspective. Two aspects of the syntax-semantics interface are investigated based on early naturalistic data and experiments with preschool children: the Subject Specificity… read more

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-Tak Lee 2019 Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 159–183 | Chapter

The present study examines Cantonese-speaking preschool children’s sensitivity to the distinction between universal quantification (marked by the quantifier verb suffix saai3 ‘all’) and completive aspect (marked by the aspectual verb jyun4 ‘finish’). Using the Truth Value Judgment task and the… read more