Production of the adjective and possessive markers in Chinese post-stroke aphasia.

Research has shown that patients with post-stroke aphasia may encounter difficulties in producing inflectional morphemes. Interestingly, they also show distinct challenges with the inflectional morphemes of homophones, such as the plural marker and the possessive marker in English. However, previous studies have predominantly focused on morphemes in European languages.

The role of L1 in L2 speech production at different stages of L2 development: Evidence from L2 Chinese oral production of verb-phrase ellipsis by English and Korean speakers.

The article reports on an empirical study investigating the role of L1 at the initial and developmental stages of L2 speech production. It examines two types of Chinese verb- phrase-ellipsis, ΣP-ellipsis licensed by the auxiliary 'BE' and vP-ellipsis licensed by the other auxiliaries, in 45 English and 45 Korean adult speakers' L2 Chinese speech production. An elicited imitation task was administered to L2 learners at beginner, intermediate and advanced Chinese proficiency levels.