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Articulatory reduction in Mandarin Chinese words
Interspeech 2011, 2011Conference Theme: Speech science and technology for real ...
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Voice dictation of Mandarin Chinese
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 1997The Chinese language is not alphabetic, and input of Chinese characters into computers remains a difficult problem even after decades of efforts made to overcome the problem. Voice dictation of Mandarin Chinese with a very large vocabulary is believed to be the perfect solution, but this is a highly challenging speech recognition problem with many ...
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Perception of intonation in Mandarin Chinese
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011There is a tendency across languages to use a rising pitch contour to convey question intonation and a falling pitch contour to convey a statement. In a lexical tone language such as Mandarin Chinese, rising and falling pitch contours are also used to differentiate lexical meaning.
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Phonology of The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 1986Les patrons intonatifs du Mandarin peuvent se reduire a trois melodies : Melodie I, Melodie II et Melodie III. Le point cle pour differencier la declaration de la question reside non pas dans le point terminal mais dans le point debutant de l'intonation.
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English and Chinese (Mandarin)
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1982For centuries linguists in theoretical linguistics and contrastive analysis have confined themselves to the sentence boundary. This selfimposed restriction is, no doubt, the result of the view, sustained since classical times, that language is a self-contained system, a mechanism for producing and comprehending sentences.
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Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese
2016The use of resumptive pronouns is quite productive in Mandarin Chinese; however, their distribution has rarely been studied in a systematic way. This book not only gives a thorough description of the general distribution of resumptive pronouns in different contexts but also offers a theoretical account in the framework of the Minimalist Program ...
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Exclamatives in Mandarin Chinese
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2015This paper deals with exclamatives in Mandarin and has two main objectives. The first is the application of the exclamativity tests proposed in the literature to identify “true” sentential exclamatives in Mandarin. The second goal is to establish the essential components of sentential exclamatives in Mandarin, in order to understand the necessary ...
Badan, L., Cheng, L.L.
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Coercion of Locatives in Mandarin Chinese
2013The composition of linguistic constituents always involves the consistency of collocation, that is to say, any two constituents in a unit must be the same or similar in meaning, syntax, usage or prosody; If inconsistency appears, one part of the combination will coerce the other to change its own characteristics, or generate a new feature to achieve ...
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Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1995
This paper proposes an analysis of Mandarin Chinese negation in whichbu ‘not’ is an adverb in Spec,AuxP or Spec, VP which may occur only with unbounded aspectual situations and which must cliticize to the following element at S-structure. Evidence comes primarily from the facts that (1)bu does not normally occur with perfective aspect markers or with ...
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This paper proposes an analysis of Mandarin Chinese negation in whichbu ‘not’ is an adverb in Spec,AuxP or Spec, VP which may occur only with unbounded aspectual situations and which must cliticize to the following element at S-structure. Evidence comes primarily from the facts that (1)bu does not normally occur with perfective aspect markers or with ...
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2004
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect ...
Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery
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Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect ...
Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery
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