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Abstracts of Articles in This Issue

The recursion-only claim and its comparative biology behavior evidence by Yang Liexiang
p221
The recursion-only claim is a hypothesis about the biology foundation of human language
which affirms the biology direction of language evolution and advocates the biology comparative
method However the claim ignores some other biology foundations of human language origin
and evolution The paper explores the requirements for the biology evolution of recursion-only
claim and compares the designs materials and results of two biology comparative experiments
Having found the flaws of their research designs and materials we argue that their results can
neither testify nor falsify the recursion-only claim

Semantics of perfective and Event Completion A cross-linguistic view of perfective

semantics in the Changsha dialect by Lu Man p230
This paper aims to investigate the relations between semantics of perfective and Event
Completion As a case study it examines the semantics of the perfective aspect in the Changsha
dialect a representative variety of the Xiang dialect in modern Chinese and points out that
Event Completion in the Changsha dialect is realized through the combination of event boundary
marked by ka and the perfective aspect marked by ta A comparative analysis of Event
Completion from the cross-linguistic perspective is then made It is found that a telic event
presented in the perfective aspect can be interpreted as completed whereas if it is not clear
whether the verb in perfective is telic or atelic the event can be either completed or terminated

An ideal theoretical conception of a new generation learner s dictionary Based on theories

of second language acquisition by Zhang Yihua p240
The main English learner s dictionaries in China are imported from the UK Although
claimed to be user-oriented they cannot satisfy the requirements of Chinese EFL learners This
paper aims to explore the theoretical and practical issues related to those contemporary English
learner s dictionaries through a large number of users surveys in terms of cognitive experience
language intuition cognitive context and effective input for second language acquisition and
discussions are made about users need and perspective cognitive economy and meaning-driven
multidimensional definition and other essential ideal characteristics of a new generation learner s
EFL dictionaries

An analysis of statistical techniques applied to lexical differences between corpora by Ge

Shili p249
Lexical differences or the differences of other linguistic features between corpora are one of
the fundamental research topics in corpus linguistics Due to mismatches between its basic
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assumptions and the conditions of lexical differences the chi-square test which is the main
statistical technique for lexical differences between corpora is likely to produce statistical errors
when applied to this kind of tasks Therefore in this study other statistical techniques including
the log-likelihood ratio test and the rank sum test are also applied to lexical differences between
corpora As the analysis indicates the log-likelihood ratio test is experimentally similar to the
chi-square test in examining lexical differences between corpora they both tend to cause
statistical errors due to such factors as sample size and sample representativeness The rank sum
test however can solve some of the relevant problems and obtain relatively objective statistical
results

L2 vocabulary acquisition study based on Reading Plus by Wu Jianshe Lang Jianguo

Fu Li and Chen Jing p258
Research on Reading Plus has shown that better vocabulary acquisition could be made if
learners do vocabulary enhancement exercises after reading It has been revealed that learners
vocabulary size achievements vocabulary learning strategies learning styles and motivations
all play important roles in their vocabulary acquisition The present paper examines how these
factors exert influences on learners immediate vocabulary acquisition and delayed retention
under the Reading Plus framework It is found that correctness in completing vocabulary
enhancement exercises vocabulary size and vocabulary use strategy produce significantly
positive effects on immediate vocabulary acquisition while correctness in completing
vocabulary enhancement exercises vocabulary use strategies and motivations contribute
significantly to their delayed vocabulary retention

Pragmatic constraints of information status on the acquisition of English preposings by

Yin Hongshan p268
English preposing constructions are constrained by both syntactic and pragmatic factors
This study explores the pragmatic constraints on the acquisition of English preposings by
Chinese EFL learners from the perspective of information status The results show that subjects
tend to accept preposings whose preposed elements represent active information but reject the
preposings in which the preposed elements carry inferentially accessible information It is found
that they are able to identify the explicit constraints imposed by information structure on
preposings in discourse but unable to identify the implicit ones Their English language
proficiency causes significant differences in dealing with the latter type of preposings It is
argued that in the absence of morphological clues the Chinese EFL learners have more difficulty
in recognizing the pragmatic relations of preposing constructions and more cognitive efforts are
therefore needed

A corpus-based study on collocational behavior and semantic prosody of near synonyms in

Chinese learner English by Lu Jun p 276
This study explores the collocational behavior and semantic prosody of near synonyms