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Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners [PDF]
Journal of Phonetics, 2004 Previous work has not yielded clear conclusions about the categorical nature of perception of tone contrasts by native listeners of tone languages. We reopen this issue in a cross-linguistic study comparing Taiwan Mandarin and French listeners. We tested these listeners on three tone continua derived from natural Mandarin utterances within carrier ...
Hallé, Pierre A. +2 more
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021 In recent years, the demand for the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese language is in full swing globally based on the recognition of the economic and social importance of China.
Wanjuan Zhong, Gift Muyunda, Jun Cheng
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Jurnal Kependidikan, 2022 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
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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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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Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2023 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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BMC Psychology, 2023 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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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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How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Number-related language input has been shown to influence children’s number word acquisition and mathematical ability. Significant differences exist between how Mandarin Chinese speaking parents and monolingual English-speaking parents use numeric ...
Alicia Chang, Catherine M. Sandhofer
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Mandarin speech perception in combined electric and acoustic stimulation. [PDF]
, 2014 For deaf individuals with residual low-frequency acoustic hearing, combined use of a cochlear implant (CI) and hearing aid (HA) typically provides better speech understanding than with either device alone.
Fu, Qian-Jie +3 more
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