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Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2021 Kinship terminology is a reflection of the kinship system in the language. Kinship is produced through marriage and family relationships. Terminology that refers to such kinship has gradually been refined over time.
WUYINGGA (UYANGA)
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Ethnic Minorities of Hulun Buir: Languages and Dialects as an Object of Research
Монголоведение, 2020 . Introduction. The article examines languages of some national minorities living in the Hulun Buir Urban District of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (PRC).
Bazar D. Tsybenov
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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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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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Classifications and Distributions of Sibling Terms in Chinese Dialects
, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to classify and draw maps of distributions of words representing “elder brother”, “younger brother”, “elder sister”, “younger sister”, “brothers”, “sisters”, and “brothers and sisters” in Chinese dialects.
Yagi, Kenji
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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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Beyond the 2nd generation:English use among Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area [PDF]
, 2010 The concept of immigrant generation is complex. Americans use the ordinal designations first-, second-, third-, even ‘1.5’-generation to refer to individuals' varying relationship to their family's moment of immigration.
Starr, Rebecca L. +3 more
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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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Why bother maintaining languages? : A discussion based on diminishing Chinese dialects in Malaysia
, 2020 Language maintenance and language shift are vital subfields in sociolinguistics. In Malaysia, past studies have observed a shift from Chinese dialects to Mandarin Chinese in the language use of many young generation Chinese, which has led to the ...
Ong, Teresa Wai See
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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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