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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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A language-familiarity effect for speaker discrimination without comprehension [PDF]
, 2014 The influence of language familiarity upon speaker identification is well established, to such an extent that it has been argued that “Human voice recognition depends on language ability” [Perrachione TK, Del Tufo SN, Gabrieli JDE (2011) Science 333(6042)
Belin, Pascal +3 more
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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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Chinese dialects, revolutionary war & economic performance [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, we explore the effects of dialectal diversity on economic performance by drawing evidence from Chinese prefecture-level cities. Our dataset is a panel of 5-year average data over the period from 2001 to 2015 including 274 cities.
Grigoriadis, Theocharis, Zhu, Junbing
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About the holding status of Manchu and Chinese materials [PDF]
, 2020 Manchu and Chinese texts are a very useful source of historical research on Chinese linguistics. From the viewpoint of language contact, there is a great influence on each language. Chinese in the Qing dynasty is clearly influenced by the Manchu language,
Uchida Keiichi, 内田 慶市
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Distinction Between Inflection and Derivation of Learning Reduplication in Mandarin [PDF]
, 2019 Reduplication as a word-formation process in Mandarin, which is one of the most difficult knowledge to comprehend for scholar and student. Theoretically this research offers an approach that is different from what has been made by previous researchers ...
Mastoyo, Y. T. (Y) +3 more
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Mandarin Chinese modality exclusivity norms
PLOS ONE, 2019 Modality exclusivity norms have been developed in different languages for research on the relationship between perceptual and conceptual systems. This paper sets up the first modality exclusivity norms for Chinese, a Sino-Tibetan language with semantics as its orthographically relevant level. The norms are collected through two studies based on Chinese
I-Hsuan Chen +4 more
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Being A “Professional” LCTL At A “Professional” Level: A Call For The Inclusion Of Multiple Chinese Languages In “Chinese” Language Pedagogy [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2011 This paper examines the term “Chinese” in light of the prevalent rhetoric of Chinese as a critical language for the job market. As Mandarin has received rapid recognition and usage in “professional” contexts such as academia and international business,
Genevieve Y. Leung , Ming-Hsuan Wu
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Two Worldviews Regarding Chinese American Names
Names, 2007 The one-language one-nation concept that arose as part of the rise in nationalism in China is alive and well in America. The existence of two worldviews and the growing dominance of Mandarin speakers in the Chinese American population have implications ...
Emma Woo Louie
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Temporal Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
Linguistics, 2005 This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type give information in the absence of explicit temporal forms.
Carlota S. Smith, Mary S. Erbaugh
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