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Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese
2009While in some languages compounding can be considered peripheral, in Chinese compounding is the most productive means of word formation. It has been shown that approximately 80% of Chinese words are compound words (Xing, 2006). In the corpus of neologisms proposed in The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (2002) more than 90% of all new words are ...
CECCAGNO, ANTONELLA, B. BASCIANO
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Perception of intonation in Mandarin Chinese
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011There is a tendency across languages to use a rising pitch contour to convey question intonation and a falling pitch contour to convey a statement. In a lexical tone language such as Mandarin Chinese, rising and falling pitch contours are also used to differentiate lexical meaning.
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What R Mandarin Chinese /ɹ/s? – acoustic and articulatory features of Mandarin Chinese rhotics
PhoneticaAbstract Rhotic sounds are well known for their considerable phonetic variation within and across languages and their complexity in speech production. Although rhotics in many languages have been examined and documented, the phonetic features of Mandarin rhotics remain unclear, and debates about the prevocalic rhotic (the syllable-onset ...
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