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PENGGUNAAN BAHASA MANDARIN SEBAGAI MEDIUM DAKWAH DALAM NGO DI MALAYSIA
The use of Mandarin language in Dakwah is remotely practiced by Malaysians. This is because majority of Malaysians especially Muslims are more comfortable using their native language which is Malay language and English as communication language used with
Aemy Elyani Mat Zain +3 more
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Mandarin attrition among tertiary students [PDF]
This study aimed at determining whether Mandarin language attrition occurs in terms of Chinese character recognition, word order, and writing ability after a two-month holiday.
Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah +2 more
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Context effects on second-language learning of tonal contrasts. [PDF]
Studies of lexical tone learning generally focus on monosyllabic contexts, while reports of phonetic learning benefits associated with input variability are based largely on experienced learners.
Bowles, Anita R., Chang, Charles B.
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Background: Accented speech contains talker-indexical cues that listeners can use to infer social group membership, yet it remains unclear how the auditory system categorizes accent variability and how this process depends on language experience. Methods:
Lauren L. Hong +2 more
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Topicalization and the question of lexical passives in Chinese [PDF]
This paper is one argument for a theory of grammatical relations in Chinese in which there are no grammatical relations beyond semantic roles, and no lexical relation-changing rules.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Identical topics in Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese [PDF]
Identical topic (IT henceforth) was previously known as copying topic (Xu & Liu (1998:141-157). It is fully or partially identical to a corresponding element (CE henceforth) occurring in the following part of the clause.
Liu, Danqing
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Telicization in Mandarin Chinese
This paper investigates aspectual meanings that resultative morphemes in Mandarin Chinese contribute to interpretations of the entire predicates, and in particular the culmination readings they bring out of the originally non-culminating accomplishments.
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Early vocabulary inventory for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Early vocabulary development is a reliable predictor of children's later language skills. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) has provided a powerful tool to assess earlyvocabulary development in English and other languages. However, there have been no published CDI norms for Mandarin Chinese.
Meiling, Hao +3 more
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Implications of Autosegmental Analysis in the Exploration of Prosodic Phonology in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Autosegmental Phonology (Goldsmith, 1979) is a theoretical framework for understanding the phonological effects of suprasegmentals such as tone, stress, etc.
Frazier, Kristen
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The proximate phonological unit of Chinese-English bilinguals: proficiency matters. [PDF]
An essential step to create phonology according to the language production model by Levelt, Roelofs and Meyer is to assemble phonemes into a metrical frame.
Rinus Gerardus Verdonschot +4 more
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