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Telicization in Mandarin Chinese
Journal of Linguistics, 2022 This paper investigates aspectual meanings that resultative morphemes in Mandarin Chinese contribute to interpretations of the entire predicates, and in particular the culmination readings they bring out of the originally non-culminating accomplishments.
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Early vocabulary inventory for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Behavior Research Methods, 2008 Early vocabulary development is a reliable predictor of children's later language skills. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) has provided a powerful tool to assess earlyvocabulary development in English and other languages. However, there have been no published CDI norms for Mandarin Chinese.
Meiling, Hao +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Implications of Autosegmental Analysis in the Exploration of Prosodic Phonology in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
, 2014 Autosegmental Phonology (Goldsmith, 1979) is a theoretical framework for understanding the phonological effects of suprasegmentals such as tone, stress, etc.
Frazier, Kristen
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts.
Wang Xinyi, Naubahar Sharif
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Teaching Mandarin as a foreign language in Higher Education institutions in South Africa
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2013 Foreign language learning is a hallmark of the internationalisation of university education and a key to enabling graduates to participate in a globalising world. Currently, China is both a global political player and a key market and trading partner for
Qi, Y (Wang)
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The proximate phonological unit of Chinese-English bilinguals: proficiency matters. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 An essential step to create phonology according to the language production model by Levelt, Roelofs and Meyer is to assemble phonemes into a metrical frame.
Rinus Gerardus Verdonschot +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Bourdieu's sociological concept of social capital highlights its significance in enabling individuals to access other forms of capital for personal advantage. In the literature on university students' employability, particularly that concerning international and non‐local students, social capital is widely recognised as a key asset, alongside ...
Fang Gao, Thanh Pham
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Languages, 2022 Languages vary systematically in how semantic information is “packaged” in verbs and verb-related constructions. Mandarin Chinese contrasts typologically with English in its lexicalization of state change. Most Mandarin monomorphemic verbs are moot about
Jidong Chen, Zhiying Qian
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Color Image Norms in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The present study comprises two parts, an object picture naming task and rating tasks, and reports naming latencies and norms for 435 color images in Mandarin Chinese. These norms include name agreement (%), H-value, concept agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, age of acquisition (AOA) based on adult ratings, object agreement, viewpoint agreement,
Dandan Zhou +5 more
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