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Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners [PDF]
Journal of Phonetics, 2004 Previous work has not yielded clear conclusions about the categorical nature of perception of tone contrasts by native listeners of tone languages. We reopen this issue in a cross-linguistic study comparing Taiwan Mandarin and French listeners. We tested these listeners on three tone continua derived from natural Mandarin utterances within carrier ...
Hallé, Pierre A. +2 more
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The spread of Mandarin in Malaysia: Evidence in language choices in public settings
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 Adopting Cooper's (1982) framework of language spread, this paper focuses on the spread of Mandarin in the Chinese community in the state of Johore, Malaysia.
Xiaomei Wang
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The present study aimed to investigate the neural mechanism underlying semantic processing in Mandarin Chinese adult learners, focusing on the learners who were Indo-European language speakers with advanced levels of proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.
Chia-Ho Lai +11 more
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Singapore Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018 Abstract Given the historical and linguistic contexts of Singapore, it is both theoretically and practically significant to study Singapore Mandarin (SM), an important member of Global Chinese. This paper aims to present a relatively comprehensive linguistic picture of SM by overviewing current ...
Lin, Jingxia, Khoo, Yong Kang
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant long psychological impacts that require a novel measurement tool to capture the changes in such impacts. To this end, the COVID-19 Impact Scale (CIS) was developed as an instrument to evaluate psychological ...
Qing Zhang +4 more
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K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2020 This is the study of language ideologies of young Chinese Surabayanese’ motivation in learning Mandarin and the influence of their beliefs in Mandarin towards their sense of Chinese-ness. The approach of this study is qualitative, through semi-structured
Gabriela Angeline Hananya
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How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Number-related language input has been shown to influence children’s number word acquisition and mathematical ability. Significant differences exist between how Mandarin Chinese speaking parents and monolingual English-speaking parents use numeric ...
Alicia Chang, Catherine M. Sandhofer
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Mandarin speech perception in combined electric and acoustic stimulation. [PDF]
, 2014 For deaf individuals with residual low-frequency acoustic hearing, combined use of a cochlear implant (CI) and hearing aid (HA) typically provides better speech understanding than with either device alone.
Fu, Qian-Jie +3 more
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Effect of F0 contour on perception of Mandarin Chinese speech against masking.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Intonation has many perceptually significant functions in language that contribute to speech recognition. This study aims to investigate whether intonation cues affect the unmasking of Mandarin Chinese speech in the presence of interfering sounds ...
Meihong Wu
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