Day 1, 14 December 2017

8.00-8.45 Registration
Room U6-10
8.45-9.00 Opening by the organisers
9.00-10 Invited speaker: Waltraud PAUL
"Back to the basics: Why (discrete) lexical categories are
needed for Chinese as well"
Room U6-10 Room U6-11
CHAIR Walter BISANG Maria Teresa GUASTI
10-10.30 Marc Tang and Na Song. Jingtao Zhu and Anna
Restricted inventory of Gavarró. The acquisition of
numeral classifiers and null subjects and null objects
nominal classification in L1 Chinese
functions: A case study of the
Sinitic dialect of Baoding
10.30-11 Edith Aldridge. Inherent Shenai Hu, Francesca Costa
Case in Archaic Chinese and Maria Teresa Guasti.
Relative clauses are more
difficult in Mandarin than in
Italian by bilingual children
11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12 Ludovica Lena. A spoken Angel Chan, Si Chen,
corpus analysis of Chinese Stephen Matthews and
you-clefts Virginia Yip.
Comprehension of Chinese
relative clauses in a
trilingual acquisition context
12-12.30 Giorgio Francesco Arcodia Charles Lam, Genevieve
and Caterina Mauri. Leung and Yuuko
Exemplar-based compounds: Uchikoshi. Narrative
the case of Chinese development in bilingual
children: Evidence from
Cantonese heritage speakers
in the U.S.
12.30-13 Bianca Basciano. On the Ye Tao, Ling Qiu, Yixin
diachronic development of Lin, Shiyuan Wang and
Mandarin verbal Qinmei Xu. Word learning
reduplication and phonetic processing in
preschool-age Chinese
children
13-14.30 Lunch Break
CHAIR Angel CHAN Yanping DONG
14.30-15 Luisa Paternicò. Cantonese Cindy Wan Yee Lau and
tones in the first western Lam Nga Yee Margaret.
descriptions Acquisition of Focus in
Cantonese and Mandarin
monolinguals
15-15.30 John C. Wakefield. The Danlei Chen. Differentiated
semantic change of English curriculum and instruction,
loanwords in Cantonese language uses and
ideologies, and biliteracy
development in a preschool
Mandarin/English dual-
language immersion class: A
case study
15.30-16 Li Sum Hung Eden, Lui Wei Zhu and Xizhen Qin.
Percy, Steven Ng, Andy Peer response and writing: A
Fung and Li John. case study in a Chinese as a
Subjectivity and evidentiality foreign language class
in Cantonese: A text-based
study in political discourse in
Hong Kong
16-16.30 Coffee Break
CHAIR Edith ALDRIDGE Chiara PICCININI
16.30-17 Vittorio Tantucci. An Caitríona Osborne. What is
evolutionary approach to the more effective for teaching
semasiological change of the Chinese characters to CFL
Mandarin 吧-ba particle beginners? A study of rote
memorisation, delayed
character introduction and
character colour-coding
17-17.30 Tian Liu. The semantic Caroline Margareta Maaz
network analysis of hand and Hao Xu. Pinyin presence
movement verb from the in materials for reading
perspective of Image Schema practice: A research on
Theory--A case study of la cognitive load and pinyin use
in Chinese character
acquisition
17.30-18 Jing Tian and Bo Xu. A Sandra Kaltenegger.
study on linguistic and Language attitudes of
cultural features of Chinese Mandarin learners regarding
tongue twisters Chinese pluricentricity

Day 2, 15 December 2017

8.00-9.00 Registration
Room U6-10
9.00-10 Invited speaker: Peng ZHOU
"Sentence comprehension in Mandarin-speaking children
with autism"
Room U6-10 Room U6-11
CHAIR Carlotta SPARVOLI Peng ZHOU
10-10.30 Qingwen Zhang and Jinwei Hao Xu. Tone training
Ye. A study of haa5 in
Cantonese
10.30-11 Barbara Meisterernst. The Chiara Romagnoli and
diachronic development of dé Sergio Conti. Vocabulary
得 from Late Archaic to learning strategies and
Early Middle Chinese vocabulary size in Chinese
as a foreign language
11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12 Ying Yang. Turn-initial na Chiara Piccinini. Analysis of
‘that’: The emergence of a the pragmatic uses of ne 呢
stance marker in Mandarin and ránhòu 然后 in two
Chinese conversation corpora of native Chinese
speakers and of learners of
Chinese as a second
language
12-12.30 Zaoreguli Abulimiti. Ying Li. The Application of
Mandarin Chinese and drama pedagogy and its
Uyghur Mixed Compound supplementary function in
Verbs in Spoken Uyghur teaching Chinese as a second
language - An analysis of
activities of The Chinese
Theatre Workshop at
"L'Orientale" University of
Naples, Italy
12.30-13 Giulia Cabras. The role of Dongyan Chen. Stage-like
Chinese in conversation: A development in L2 Chinese
case study on Uyghur- study and its implications for
Chinese code switching Chinese teaching
13-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-15.30 Invited speaker: Walter BISANG
"The properties of grammaticalization in Chinese - a
comparative perspective"
CHAIR Xiuhong YAN Charles LAM
15.30-16 Zhanhai Tan. Pragmatic Qiong Wu. Does Spaced
translation of culture-loaded Chinese text facilitate L2
animal words in 300 Tang reading? Evidence from self-
Poems paced reading
16-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17 Nazarena Fazzari. 禁忌, 忌 Yaobin Liu, Lei Liu,
讳 and 避讳. A lexical and Hongchen Wu and Gary
semantic analysis. Mar. On thawing frozen
scope
17-17.30 Bo Xu and Jing Tian. A Rui-Heng Huang. On
Statistic and Contrast Based Chinese stripping
Study on Modern Chinese
Onomatopoeia
19.00/19.30 Conference dinner
Day 3, 16 December 2017

Room U6-23
9.00-10 Invited speaker: Yanping DONG
“Language learning and cognitive control enhancement"
Room U6-23 Room U6-28
CHAIR Waltraud PAUL Qingwen ZHANG
10-10.30 I-Hao Woo. A syntactic Keith Tse. Diachronic
account to the development formation of Chinese cleft
of –wan ‘finish’ in Mandarin (shi-de) constructions:
Chinese Mandarin and dialects
10.30-11 Michele Mannoni. Hefa Xiuhong Yan and Lian Hee
Quanyi: Reconsidering Wee. Aspiration as
'legitimate rights and mediation for affrication:
interests' in China Evidence from Hakka
11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12 Shuo Yu. A corpus study of Man Shan Tong. Using
Chinese resultative Phonological Evidence to
constructions: a typological Subcategorize Cantonese
perspective IDOCs
12-12.30 Lihi Yariv-Laor. Mandarin Emily Grabowski. Sandhi in
Chinese as a subjectivity- Teochew: new phonetic data
prominent language from overseas speakers