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A Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition Framework
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2006A framework for dialectal Chinese speech recognition is proposed and studied, in which a relatively small dialectal Chinese (or in other words Chinese influenced by the native dialect) speech corpus and dialect-related knowledge are adopted to transform a standard Chinese (or Putonghua, abbreviated as PTH) speech recognizer into a dialectal Chinese ...
Jing Li +3 more
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Offensive Words in Chinese Dialects
2021This chapter takes a look at offensive words in Chinese dialects and their varieties other than Mandarin, unlike the focus of most of the other chapters. The reason for this chapter is simple: despite being the base language for what we have come to know as standard Chinese, Mandarin is, after all, just one of the many Chinese dialects that exist ...
Lorna Carson, Ning Jiang
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The Xiangxiang dialect of Chinese
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2019Xiangxiang ([ɕjaŋ44 ɕjaŋ44]) is a Chinese dialect spoken by a population of 885,552 in the urban area of Xiangxiang (CN-430381), a city located in the centre of Hunan Province, China (Jiang 2008: 6). It belongs to Xiang ([ɕjaŋ44], ISO: 639-3: [hsn]), which is one of the ten major dialect groups of Chinese (LAC 2012).1 Xiang has two main subgroups, New ...
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Chinese Dialect Classification
1999This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and propose a comprehensive comparative framework as a more ...
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2014
This survey on the use of the Chongqing dialect found that: (1) Age-dependent differences of dialectal competence of the Chongqing dialect are not prominent, (2) The Putonghua (Standard Chinese) competence of Chongqing speakers is age-related in urban areas, (3) The changes in the frequency of use between Putonghua and Chongqing dialect are explained ...
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This survey on the use of the Chongqing dialect found that: (1) Age-dependent differences of dialectal competence of the Chongqing dialect are not prominent, (2) The Putonghua (Standard Chinese) competence of Chongqing speakers is age-related in urban areas, (3) The changes in the frequency of use between Putonghua and Chongqing dialect are explained ...
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Dialects into Films----The Element of “Dialect” in Chinese Films
2013In recent years, using dialects in Chinese films has become more and more popular. By observing this phenomenon and investigating its history, I find out three functions that dialect has in cinema: severing as fun maker, indicating the identity of the speaker, helping to describe the speaker’s characteristics.
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Standard Chinese and the Xining dialect
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 2006Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, is an especially valuable location for observing the spread and influence of Standard Chinese, or Putonghua, for at least two reasons. First, the dialect’s history of contact with non-Sinitic languages, mostly Tibetan and Mongolic languages, created an older linguistic stratum that differs markedly from other ...
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Development of Chinese Dialect Bibles
2021Abstract Bible versions in China are classified into five categories: the classical literary (high wenli) version; the simpler literary (easy wenli) version; the Mandarin version; the dialects version; and the national language version. This essay surveys the history and characteristics of the major Chinese dialect Bibles, including many
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Chinese Dialects/Dialects of Chinese: Lack of Standard English Terminology in Chinese Linguistics
2014Chinese dialects, Hanyu fangyan 汉语方言, topolects ...
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The Politics and Sociolinguistics of Chinese Dialects
2014Having set the scene in general in the last chapter, we will now clarify some basic sociolinguistic concepts necessary for studying language attitudes and identities in multilingual China. Firstly, we discuss the problematic issue of distinguishing between language and dialect in the specific context of Chinese languages. The general rules for language-
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