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On Chinese Dialects and Chinese Local Operas

On Chinese Dialects and Chinese Local Operas
In this paper, we mainly discuss the relationships between the Chinese dialects and the Chinese local operas. We explore the important roles played by the dialects in the emerge, appearance, prosperity and development of the local operas, and the important roles played by the local operas in the innovation, development and the unifying tendency of the ...
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Language-related self-efficacy of pharmacy staff in providing medication counselling to older adults in a linguistically diverse setting. [PDF]

Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm
Suppiah SD, Goh M, Yang X, Tan YW, Malhotra R, PROMISE Study Group.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The imperfective -zhe in northwestern Chinese Dialects : a typological study

, 2011
In the vast majority of northwestern Chinese dialects (NWDs) spoken in Shanxi 山西, Shaanxi 陕西, Qinghai 青海, Ningxia 宁夏, Gansu 甘肃, Xinjiang 新疆, and Inner Mongolia 内蒙古, the aspect marker -ZHE 着 has a number of peculiar characteristics. The most prominent one
Fan, Xiaolei
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Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As calls intensify for language education to provide authentic exposure to linguistic and cultural diversity—an essential condition for preparing learners to navigate an interconnected world—concerns about the declining status of additional language study reveal an important challenge.
Koen Van Gorp
wiley   +1 more source

ANCHOLIK-NER: A benchmark dataset for Bangla regional named entity recognition. [PDF]

PLoS One
Paul B, Preotee FF, Sarker S, Refat SR, Islam S, Muhammad T, Hoque MA, Manzoor S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multiword sequences do not predict speaking proficiency in dialogue: A pair‐level analysis

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study revisited the commonly held view that the use of multiword sequences (MWSs) is a reliable predictor of L2 speaking proficiency in monologue, by extending the investigation from monologic to dialogic speaking contexts. We accessed dialogic performance data from 127 test‐takers of the Test of English for Educational Purposes assessed ...
Takumi Uchihara, Parveneh Tavakoli, Svetlana Mazhurnaya, Phil Smyth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring translator's style in children's literature: A case study of Nicky Harman's English translations of Huang Beijia's two works. [PDF]

PLoS One
He H, Wang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unexpected Encounters in Island Worlds: Interactions Between ROC/Taiwan Fishers and Chinese Diaspora Communities in the 20th‐Century Pacific

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities ...
Jess Marinaccio
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetry in responsiveness to playback of geographic song variation after a recent range expansion in light-vented bulbuls. [PDF]

Behav Ecol
Xing X, Yang X, Xu X, Fu C, Song G, Lei F, Slabbekoorn H.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Predicting mutual intelligibility among Chinese dialects from subjective and objective linguistic similarity measures

, 2006
We determined subjective mutual intelligibility and linguistic similarity by presenting recordings of the same spoken passage in 15 Chinese dialects to naive listeners of the same set of dialects and asking them to rate the dialects along both subjective
Tang, Chaoju
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