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Prosodic Realization of Focus in Changchun Mandarin and Nanjing Mandarin
2019 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2019This study was designed to explore the prosodic patterns of focus in two dialects of Mandarin. One is Changchun Mandarin and the other is Nanjing Mandarin. The current paper compares the acoustics of their prosodic realization of focus in a production experiment.
Ying Chen +3 more
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Prolongation in spontaneous Mandarin
Interspeech 2004, 2004This paper presents a corpus-based study on prolongations in spontaneous Mandarin. Prolongations are mainly produced for hesitation, but also for emphasizing a discourse focus and signalling an explicit feedback. 786 prolongation occurrences are investigated in terms of the position, the part of speech and the segment and tone types.
Tzu-Lun Lee +4 more
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2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2012
This paper examines and compares the characteristics of tones in a CV syllable in Mandarin under phonated and whispered speech. Formants of the vowel in various contexts are also compared across the tone environments in different phonation types, in order to assess whether and how tone environments and vowel production interacts, as the paper is ...
Bin Li 0003, Rong Rong
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This paper examines and compares the characteristics of tones in a CV syllable in Mandarin under phonated and whispered speech. Formants of the vowel in various contexts are also compared across the tone environments in different phonation types, in order to assess whether and how tone environments and vowel production interacts, as the paper is ...
Bin Li 0003, Rong Rong
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The Grammaticalization of Mandarin Diao
2021This paper examines the grammaticalization of diao from a main verb to a resultative marker in Mandarin. Diao is a multifunctional word that has undergone a process of semantic evolution in its verbal meaning, from ‘to swing’, ‘to throw’, ‘to fall down’, to ‘to disappear’.
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Effects of Mandarin Cultivar on Quality of Mandarin Juice
Food Science and Technology International, 2008Eight mandarin cultivars have been analyzed for their content of vitamin C, minerals (Ca, Mg, K, Na, Fe, Cu, Mn, and Zn), CIELab color coordinates (L*, a*, b*, C*, and h ab ), total volatile compounds content and sensory aroma intensity of juice.
F. Beltrán +3 more
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Universal Quantification in Mandarin
2020Mandarin universal terms such as mei-NPs in preverbal positions usually require the presence of dou ‘all/even’. This motivates the widely accepted idea from Lin (1998) that Mandarin does not have genuine (distributive) universal quantifiers, and mei-NPs are disguised plural definites, which thus need dou – a distributive operator (or an adverbial ...
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Prosodic focus marking in Bai-Mandarin sequential bilinguals’ Mandarin
Speech Prosody 2016, 2016This study investigates the prosodic marking of focus in sequential bilinguals speaking Bai as their first language and Mandarin Chinese as their second language. Mandarin SVO sentences with varying information structure were elicited through a picture-matching task. The participants were primary school teachers in a Bai speaking community.
Liu, Zenghui +2 more
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The tonal phonology of mandarin
Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 1980Yip Moira. The tonal phonology of mandarin. In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, vol. 7, 1980. pp. 47-57.
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