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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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Early Literacy Development in Mandarin-Speaking Children: The Role of Phonological Awareness, Rapid Naming and Spoken Language Skills [PDF]
, 2012 In Taiwan, many children grow up in a bilingual environment, namely Mandarin and Taiwanese. They learn Zhuyin Fuhao – a semi-syllabic transparent orthography – at the beginning of the first grade before learning traditional Chinese characters.
Yeh, Lili
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Standard Language Variation in Chinese: Some Insights from Both Theory and Practice
Critical Multilingualism Studies, 2020 In the discourse on pluricentricity, standard language variation within the Chinese language has rarely been addressed, even though it is the most widely spoken language in the world and steadily gains in popularity amongst foreign language learners ...
Sandra Kaltenegger
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Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese
CoRR, 2018 This study adapts Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses (SNACS) annotation to Mandarin Chinese and demonstrates that the same supersense categories are appropriate for Chinese adposition semantics. We annotated 15 chapters of The Little Prince, with high interannotator agreement.
Zhu, Yilun +5 more
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Multidimensional Analysis Tagger of Mandarin Chinese
, 2021 MulDi Chinese is a multidimensional analysis tagger of Mandarin Chinese.
Nannan Liu
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Effect of F0 contour on perception of Mandarin Chinese speech against masking.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Intonation has many perceptually significant functions in language that contribute to speech recognition. This study aims to investigate whether intonation cues affect the unmasking of Mandarin Chinese speech in the presence of interfering sounds ...
Meihong Wu
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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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Kekhasan Pengajaran Bahasa Mandarin di Indonesia
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2007 1998 was the year of Mandarin teaching resurrection in Indonesia after 30 years prohibited. Since then, many schools begin to teach Mandarin as an extracurricular subject. In the last two years it becomes an intracurricular subject.
Hermina Sutami
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Prosodic Marking of New and Given Information in English and Mandarin by Chinese Speakers
Journal of Modern Languages, 2023 Second-language speakers have been found to face difficulties marking prosodic features of new and given information in English. Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners speak English with a different intonation from L1 speakers, which can ...
Man Jiang
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A corpus-based study of interaction between Chinese perfective -le and situation types. [PDF]
, 2001 Mandarin Chinese as an aspect language (Norman, 1988:163) has a rich inventory of aspect markers, including perfective -le1, -guo and imperfective -zhe, zai. Of these -le is the most studied marker because of its mysterious behaviors.
Xiao, R., Xiao, R. Z.
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