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Mandarin and the Mandarins: Language policy and the media in Singapore

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1980
Abstract The current language situation in Singapore is outlined and its relation to demographic and political changes over the last 30 years is indicated. Reasons for the pre‐eminence of English in Singapore are adduced and the appeal of Mandarin as the official, if presently rather little used, Chinese language of Singapore is described.
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A Comparison of Taiwanese, Taiwan Mandarin, and Peking Mandarin

Language, 1985
Taiwan Mandarin (TM) is the variety which is learned and used, primarily as a second language, by the people of Taiwan, 80% of whom speak Taiwanese (Tw), a variety of Minnan, as a native language. Taking Peking Mandarin (PM) as the designated standard, this paper identifies those PM features which (a) are not common in TM, e.g.
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« Lettrés, mandarins et mandarins lettrés »

2009
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Computer synthesis of Mandarin

ICASSP '76. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005
Mandarin was synthesized using a computer-controlled speech synthesizer. The four tones and the neutral one in the unstressed syllable were constructed by varying the pitch of the phoneme string. A passage and a list of single syllables were generated for an experiment.
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MANDARIN FEET

American Journal of Roentgenology, 1973
M E, Mottram, I R, Pyle
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A contrastive investigation of standard Mandarin and accented Mandarin

8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), 2003
Aijun Li, Xia Wang
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Perceptual Processing of Mandarin Nasals by L1 and L2 Mandarin Speakers

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011
Nasals are cross-linguistically susceptible to change, especially in the syllable final position. Acoustic reports on Mandarin nasal production have recently shown that the syllable-final distinction is frequently dropped. Few studies, however, have addressed the issue of perceptual processing in Mandarin nasals for L1 and L2 speakers of Mandarin ...
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The Mandarins’ Mandarin: Sir Norman Brook, secretary of the cabinet

Contemporary British History, 1999
(1999). The Mandarins’ Mandarin: Sir Norman Brook, secretary of the cabinet. Contemporary British History: Vol. 13, Whitehall and the Suez Crisis, pp. 64-78.
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Comparison of the microbial community and flavor compounds in fermented mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi): Three typical types of Chinese fermented mandarin fish products

Food Research International, 2021
Yanyan Wu, Laihao Li, Yongqiang Zhao
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F0 Patterns in Mandarin Statements of Mandarin and Cantonese Speakers

Interspeech 2020, 2020
Yike Yang, Si Chen, Xi Chen
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