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Defending a Language: The Cantonese Umbrella Movement
, 2020 This paper demonstrates how the Cantonese language can simultaneously serve as a threat to the Beijing government and a counter-hegemonic articulation of Hong Kong protesters against the Beijing government by applying the theory of hegemony and the ...
Bacon, Joshua S
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Automatic word segmentation for spoken Cantonese
, 2015 International audienceThough Cantonese is the most influential variety of Chinese other than Mandarin, there are only a limited number of Cantonese corpora available for linguistic studies.
Bigi, B +5 more
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Multicultural ShakespeareThe English performance of Shakespeare in Hong Kong during the early colonial governance period served partly to support the cultural security of the British expatriates, and partly the edification of the locals. However, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed an
Guixia Xie
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Cantonese sentence dataset for lip‐reading
IET Image ProcessingLip‐reading deciphers speech by observing lip movements without relying on audio data. The rapid advancements in deep learning have significantly improved lip‐reading for both English and Chinese; however, research on dialects such as Cantonese remains ...
Yewei Xiao +5 more
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Traditional opera and young people: Cantonese opera as personal development
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2017 Cantonese opera, one of the regional opera forms in China, flourishes mainly in the southern province of Guangdong. By exploring the culture of Cantonese operatic singing, this study explores the role of traditional music in the lives of young people ...
Wai Han Lo
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Cantonese-Portuguese Lexical Fusion: Pragmatic Insights from Cantonese-Portuguese Dictionaries
In the context of foreign trade during the Ming and Qing dynasties and the cultural exchanges between China and the West, the phenomenon of heterogeneous language blending gradually became evident.
Wang, Hai, DUAN, Jiayi
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'Sek Fan!": language attitudes and language practices within Cantonese households
, 2022 The Cantonese are the third largest group of Chinese in Singapore. Census data seems to show that Cantonese has the highest level of maintenance as the main household language among all the Chinese vernaculars.
Kwan, Grace Yee Kay
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InsectsApis cerana is widely managed in apiculture in Southern China but experiences substantial colony losses during prolonged summer heat. Developing effective strategies to support colony over-summering is therefore critical.
Ke Wang +7 more
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How Not to Acquire Tone: Cross-linguistic Influence in Prosody
, 2019 Tone is a persistent problem in the acquisition of Cantonese: even fluent non-native speakers have difficulty in producing and recognizing tones. Among many factors contributing to this difficulty is cross-linguistic influence at the prosodic level. This
Matthews, SJ
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The presence of antibiotics in water not only causes environmental pollution but also increases the growth of antibiotic‐resistant bacterial genes, which pose serious threats to human beings and other water residents. Large numbers of people are reportedly affected by the resistant bacterial genes, as many broad‐spectrum antibiotics are not ...
Amir Zada, Shohreh Azizi
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