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Brain Sciences, 2021 According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis, intransitive verbs are divided into unaccusative and unergative ones based on the distinction of their syntactic properties, which has been proved by previous theoretical and empirical evidence.
Xin Wang +6 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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On analysis of eigenpitch in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
SympoTIC '04. Joint 1st Workshop on Mobile Future & Symposium on Trends In Communications (IEEE Cat. No.04EX877), 2005 Prosody is an inherent supra-segmental feature of human speech that is being employed to express, e.g., attitude, emotion, intent and attention. Pitch is the most important feature among the prosodic information. For Mandarin Chinese speech, the pitch information is even more crucial because Mandarin is a tonal language in which the tone of each ...
Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen
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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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Learning tone distinctions for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Interspeech 2007, 2007 We describe the SpeakGoodChinese system that supports beginning students of Mandarin Chinese to produce tones correctly (http://speakgoodchinese.org/). Students pronounce a word spelled in pinyin notation and receive feedback from our system on their production of the tones.
Weenink, D.J.M. +6 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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Early Literacy Development in Mandarin-Speaking Children: The Role of Phonological Awareness, Rapid Naming and Spoken Language Skills [PDF]
, 2012 In Taiwan, many children grow up in a bilingual environment, namely Mandarin and Taiwanese. They learn Zhuyin Fuhao – a semi-syllabic transparent orthography – at the beginning of the first grade before learning traditional Chinese characters.
Yeh, Lili
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