Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I SLA Theories as Related to Chinese -- 1 The Theoretical Landscape of Second Language Acquisition -- PART II Chinese Phonology -- 2 De-stress in Mandarin: Clitics, Cliticoids, and Phonetic Chunks -- 3 The Effects of Tonal Markedness in Second Language Chinese Tones -- 4 From Phonological Studies to Teaching Mandarin Tone: Some Perspectives on the Revision of the Tonal Inventory -- PART III Semantic Aspects and Vocabulary -- 5 Adjectival Category -- 6 Chinese Vocabulary Acquisition and Teaching: Basic Concepts and Research Results -- PART IV Chinese Grammar -- 7 The Grammar of Chinese Nouns -- 8 Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language: Replication and Extension -- 9 The Instantiation of Binding Through Pragmatic and Syntactic Processes -- 10 Second Language Acquisition of Aspect in Mandarin Chinese -- PART V Pragmatic Aspects -- 11 Development of Pragmatic Competence: Compliment Responses by L2 Learners of Chinese -- 12 Intercultural Communicative Competence and Emotion Among Second Language Learners of Chinese -- 13 Foundations for Content Learning in Chinese: Beyond the European Base -- Index