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23Rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics Volume 1 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics Volume 1 Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt June 17-29, 2011 Eugene, OR ©Cover design and front matters by NACCL-23 ©All papers copyrighted by the authors Proceedings of the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23) Volume 1/edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt Published by: University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Distributed by: NACCL Proceedings Online Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures 398 Hagerty Hall 1775 College Road The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio URL: http://naccl.osu.edu CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1 Page Preface v Acknowledgements vi Part I Corpus Linguistics Tao Ming and Liang Chen 1-17 The ordering of multiple relative clauses modifying the same head NP in Chinese follows information-flow principles Shan Wang, Sophia Lee and Chu-ren Huang 18-34 A corpus-based analysis of semantic type system of event nouns: a case study on huìyì Wen Jin 35-50 A statistical argument for the homophone avoidance approach to the disyllabification of Chinese Part II Historical Linguistics Scott DeLancey 51-64 The origins of Sinitic Jeeyoung Peck 65-83 Analogy and reanalysis in the postposing of durative and iterative adverbials in the history of Chinese Part III Phonetics and Phonology Shawn Yung-hsiang Chang 84-96 Distinction between Mandarin tones 2 and 3 for L1 and L2 listeners Ping Jiang and Aishu Chen 97-109 Representation of Mandarin intonations: boundary tone revisited Yah-ting Shih and Eunjong Kong 110-119 Perception of Mandarin fricatives by native speakers of Taiwan Mandarin and Taiwanese Ying-Shing Li 120-137 Investigating Taiwan Southern Min sub-syllabic structure using maximum entropy models and wordlikeness judgments Chiung-Yao Wang and Yen-Hwei Lin 138-155 Variation in tone 3 sandhi in Mandarin: the case of prepositions and pronouns Seth Wiener 156-172 Grass-mud horse to victory: the phonological constraints of subversive puns Seth Wiener and Ya-ting Shih 173-190 Divergent places of articulation: [ω] and [ʋ] in modern spoken Mandarin. Part IV Psycholinguistics Chien-Jer Charles Lin 191-199 Chinese and English relative clauses: processing constraints and typological consequences Yowyu Lin 200-214 Locality versus anti-locality effects in Mandarin sentence comprehension Yu-an Lu 215-226 The psychological reality of phonological representations: the case of Mandarin fricatives Part V Second Language Acquisition Ying Liu and Qian Du 227-236 Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners’ linguistic representation of voice in argumentative writing Hongying Xu 237-249 The acquisition of some properties of the BA construction by English-speaking learners of Chinese Jin Zhang 250-261 L2 acquisition of Chinese locative inversion PREFACE The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23) was organized and hosted by the University of Oregon on June 17-19, 2011. A total of 153 abstracts were submitted to the conference organizing committee. The abstracts were reviewed and rated by the NACCL-23 Scientific Committee (Susan G. Anderson, Marjorie K.M. Chan, Ying Chen, Scott DeLancey, Agnes W.Y. He, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Lizhen Peng, Chaofen Sun, Hongyin Tao, Liang Tao, and Janet Xing), and a total of 98 proposals were selected for presentation, and 83 presentations were actually made at the conference. The presentations represented 102 scholars from China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. Topics ranged from psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics to discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, from historical linguistics and Buddhist text translation studies to sociolinguistics and dialectology, from phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics to second language acquisition and language pedagogy. Five internationally renowned scholars gave keynote speeches at the conference. They were Prof. Walter Bisang (Johannes Gutenberg University), Prof. Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (University of Marburg), Prof. Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Prof. Agnes He (SUNY Stony Brook), and Prof. Fu-xiang Wu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). Included in the NACCL-23 Conference Proceedings are 38 of the presented papers, divided into two volumes. Volume 1 consists of five parts: Part I Corpus Linguistics, Part II Historical Linguistics, Part III Phonetics and Phonology, Part IV Psycholinguistics, and Part V Second Language Acquisition. Volume 2 consists of five parts: Part I Semantics and Pragmatics, Part II Sociolinguistics and Socio-pragmatics, Part III Studies on Regional Varieties of Chinese, Part IV Syntax, and Part V Translation Study of Buddhist Sutras. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Ph.D. October 2011, Eugene v ACKNOWLEDGMENT The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics would not have been possible without the support and dedication of many. With gratitude I acknowledge the generosity of the following sponsors: The Center of Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon The Confucius Institute, University of Oregon The College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon The conference would not have been successful without the help and hard work of many individuals. I am grateful to Marjorie K.M. Chan of Ohio State University, who was a great resource to me during the organizing process, sharing experience and patiently providing advice and encouragement. I would like to thank colleagues on the NACCL-23 Scientific Committee who carefully reviewed abstracts despite their busy schedule. The committee members are Susan Guion Anderson (University of Oregon), Marjorie K.M. Chan (Ohio State University), Ying Chen (University of Oregon), Scott DeLancey (University of Oregon), Agnes Weiyun He (Stony Brook University), Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (University of Oregon), Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon), Lizhen Peng (Zhejiang University), Chaofen Sun (Stanford University), Hongyin Tao (UCLA), Liang Tao (Ohio University), and Janet Zhiqun Xing (Western Washington University). I owe a special thank you to Lori O’Hollaren, the assistant director of the Center of Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Oregon, who managed the administration and logistics of the conference with great care and efficiency. Her professionalism, experience, attention to detail, and her positive energy are very much appreciated. I thank Yifang Zhang who joined Lori in the organizing process, working hard to ensure a successful conference. I also had a wonderful group of scholars and students volunteering for the conference. They are Dr. Lan Dai (Co-director of the UO Confucius Institute), Rong Hu, Galen Ettlin, Yingying Gu, Linda Konnerth, Ying Chen, Hideko Teruya, Katherine Thompson, and Tianqi Yang. Their hard work is very much appreciated. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Ph.D. October 2011, Eugene vi Proceedings of the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Lingusitics (NACCL-23), 2011. Volume 1, edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, University of Oregon, Eugene. Pages 1-17. The Ordering of Multiple Relative Clauses Modifying the Same Head NP in Chinese Follows Information-Flow Principles Tao Ming Concordia College Liang Chen The University of Georgia This study investigates the ordering restriction of two relative clauses modifying the same head noun phrase in Chinese. We use both retrospective and corpus data to challenge Larson and Takahashi’s (2007) account of the ordering of such multiple relative clauses in Chinese in terms of the distinction of individual-level and stage-level relative clauses. Instead, we offer an account based on the discourse function of the multiple relative clauses in Chinese. Specifically, we argue that relative clauses which serve to provide grounding information for the head noun tend to take precedence over other types of relative clauses. The proposed ordering restriction is shown to account for the ordering of multiple relative clauses in both Chinese and English. Key Words: multiple relative clause, information flow, grounding, Chinese 1. Studies on Multiple Relative Clauses In their seminal work on the grammar of relative clauses in conversational data, Fox & Thompson (1990) argue that the ordering of English relative clauses is determined by the information flow of the discourse. Specifically they find that non-human head nouns occurring in the subject position of the main clause tend to occur with an object relative clause (RC) in which the head noun is the object in the RC (e.g., The book which I bought was very interesting.). They suggest that the object RC can provide anchoring information for the non-human head noun whereas human head nouns prefer to occur with a subject RC in which the head noun is the subject in the RC (e.g., The student who did not do his homework was my friend.). The positioning of the head noun in the main clause also plays a role in determining the type of RCs to be used. For example, if a non- human head noun occurs in the object position of the main clause, it tends to occur with a subject RC instead of an object RC, thus precluding the dominance of O-O in which the head noun is the object in the RC as well as in the main clause (e.g., I love the book which she wrote.). Fox and Thompson, however, only explore human head nouns in 1 MING & CHEN: MULTIPLE RELATIVE CLAUSES existential sentences. Whether human head nouns occurring in other sentence patterns behave the same way remains to be investigated. More relevant to our present study is Fox and Thompson’s discussion of utterances containing a sequence of two relative clauses that serve to modify the same head noun. They observe that the two RCs are sequenced in an orderly and predictable fashion in their conversational data. An object RC tends to precede other RCs (1a) when modifying a non-human head noun in the subject position of a main clause1. However, if the head noun is human, subject RC tends to occur before other RCs (1b). Fox and Thompson (1990) argue that the order of the two relative clauses can be predicted from the principles governing information flow in discourse.
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