What is it about?
This research output was inspired by late Michael Clyne (2003, among others), whose seminal work on triggering and (later) transference at various linguistic levels is a powerful model for explaining the transference of specific elements across language boundaries in multilingual settings.
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Why is it important?
Compared with previous constraints-based approaches to explaining different motivations of Chinese-language transference, facilitation (earlier, triggering, Clyne 2003) is a much more powerful model for explaining why specific elements are transferred across language boundaries.
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As first author of this article, David C. S. Li is heavily indebted to Professor Clyne’s kind sharing and clarification of his exemplary research on bilingualism before he passed away. ( The other three co-authors are unavailable for providing their perspectives. )
David C. S. Li
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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This page is a summary of: Facilitation of transference: The case of monosyllabic salience in Hong Kong Cantonese, Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ling-2015-0037.
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