Quadri-syllabic Schematic Idioms in Chinese: Description and Acquisition

Liu Li is currently an associate professor in the faculty of English Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. She completed her PhD degree in linguistics in the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include language acquisition, cognitive linguistics and language pedagogy. She has published extensively in journals such as Cognitive Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, First Language, etc.

• Introduction.- From Idioms to Constructions.- Idiom Acquisition and Usage-Based Language Learning Theory.- Chinese Schematic Idioms---Productivity and Constraints.- Study One.- Study Two.- Study Three.- Study Four.- Error Analysis in Sentence Production Tasks.- Discussion and Conclusion.