An analysis of the error compound words used by foreign learners of Chinese
Xing Hongbin · Shijie hanyu jiaoxue · 2003
This paper is an exaustive analysis of the 520 error compound words of 17 subcategories in 5 categories found in the Chinese Interlanguage Corpus System. In order to specify the relevant factors in the acquisition of compound words by foreign learners, the error types are analysed and come to the following conclusions: 1 ) Foreign learners have strong awareness of the struc- tures of compound words, such as words formed with morphemes, structures and semantic relevance , ect. and 2) Foreign learners may employ two different ways of acquisition of compound words, namely, compounding from morphemes and recognising compound words as a whole. We hold that the former should be in the dominant.