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Languages, 2023 This study takes the Yong-deng dialect as a case study to investigate the phenomenon of tonal merging observed in Northwest Chinese dialects. It begins by examining the various monosyllabic tone patterns of the Yong-deng dialect, then supplements this ...
Li Yi
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Perception of English Stress of Synthesized Words by Three Chinese Dialect Groups
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study investigated the possible prosodic transfer influences native regional dialects may have in the perception of English lexical stress by speakers of three Chinese dialects [Beijing (BJ), Changsha (CS), and Guangzhou (GZ)] compared to 20 ...
Xingrong Guo, Xiaoxiang Chen
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Translingual Poets in Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwan
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2022 In the mid-1940s, Taiwan underwent a change of ruling power from colonial Japan to the Kuomintang Party from China. Both governments implemented monolingualization on the Taiwanese population.
Elaine Wong
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Name Styles and Structure of Chinese American Personal Names
Names, 1991 Chinese Americans, the largest and most diverse of the Asian American groups, range from sixth generation, English-speaking only families to recent immigrants speaking various Chinese dialects and other languages (from different countries).
Emma Woo Louie
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Chronotopos, 2022 This article compares two manuscript dictionaries, that of John Bradby Blake and Johan Pontin. These dictionaries are Cantonese-English and Cantonese-Swedish respectively, and were both created as a result of a stay in the trading hub of Canton in the ...
Lisa Hellman
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Two aspects of productivity in Taiwanese Double Reduplication
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 Monosyllabic adjectives can undergo double reduplication in Taiwanese to mark intensification. We argue in this paper that the phonological analysis for the tonal patterns of Taiwanese double reduplication relies on three elements: a floating High tone ...
Zhang, Jie, Lai, Yuwen
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Dialects, motivation, and English proficiency: Empirical evidence from China
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Within the context of China, this study seeks to examine the relationship between English language proficiency, the native dialect of the learner, and the learner’s reason, or motivation for learning English.
Rob Kim Marjerison, Shuo Yang
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Toward Unified Chinese Multi-Dialectal Speech Recognition via Pinyin Intermediate Representation
IEEE AccessMulti-dialect speech recognition is essential for the widespread adoption of intelligent interactive systems and the preservation of dialectal language resources.
Junjie Cheng, Xiaorong Wu
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
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