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Singapore Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
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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Increments in Mandarin Chinese
Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used in producing Chinese increments. Increments have been identified as a key nexus that evinces how human interactional practices are fundamental to the structuration of grammar.
Lim, Ni Eng
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This research aims to reveal some problems in learning Mandarin Chinese Proverbs in the Mandarin Language Education Study Program FKIP Tanjungpura University. The research method used in this research is qualitative descriptive study.
Lily Thamrin +3 more
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The spread of Mandarin in Malaysia: Evidence in language choices in public settings
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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Aspect and Assertion in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Chinese has a number of particles such as le, guo, zai and zhe that add a particular aspectual value to the verb to which they are attached. There have been many characterisations of this value in the literature. In this paper, we review several existing influential accounts of these particles, including those in Li and Thompson (1981), Smith (1991 ...
Klein, W., Li, P., Hendriks, H.
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
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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On analysis of eigenpitch in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
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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Background The short form of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23) is a self-rated instrument developed from the initial 95-item German version of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-95).
Jui-En Shen +7 more
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Background Chinese/Mandarin language instruction to undergraduate students from non-Chinese speaking countries has become a topic of increasing interest, driven by China’s influential role in global political and economic dynamics.
Lei Pan +5 more
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Multidimensional Analysis Tagger of Mandarin Chinese
MulDi Chinese is a multidimensional analysis tagger of Mandarin Chinese.
Nannan Liu
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