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The Man at the Self-painted Window [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This creative project is an autobiographical novel that tells the story of Hero Widjaja, a Chinese Indonesian man who embarks on his journey to Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China to find his true identity. Having raised in a pretty conservative Chinese
Irawan, S. (Stefanny), Yuwono, E. (Edi)
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Treebank-based acquisition of a Chinese lexical-functional grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Scaling wide-coverage, constraint-based grammars such as Lexical-Functional Grammars (LFG) (Kaplan and Bresnan, 1982; Bresnan, 2001) or Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammars (HPSG) (Pollard and Sag, 1994) from fragments to naturally occurring ...
Bodomo, Adams   +7 more
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Sino-Tibetan languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Basic color categories and Mandarin Chinese color terms.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Basic color terms used in Mandarin Chinese have been controversial since first discussed by Berlin and Kay in 1969. Previous studies showed much inconsistency on what should be considered as basic color terms in Mandarin Chinese. In the present study, we
Vincent C Sun, Chien-Chung Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching English Language Learners from China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This research paper attempts to provide American teachers with important background information for teaching English language learners from China. The research is presented primarily for ESL teachers, but much of it would also be useful for any teacher ...
Pavlik, Abigail
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The origin of the Japanese and Korean accent systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
S.R. Ramsey writes (1979: 162): "The patterning of tone marks in Old Kyoto texts divides the vocabulary into virtually the same classes as those arrived at by comparing the accent distinctions found in the modern dialects.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Homophones in Mandarin Chinese

open access: yesInternational Journal of Linguistics
With the increasing prevalence of homophonic phenomena in language life, research on homophones has also received increasing attention from academia. Homophones as a rhetorical method, can assist in the implementation of many rhetorical devices, among which imitation, pun and deliberate misinterpretation are the most frequent in language life.
openaire   +1 more source

Mandarin Chinese version of the Aging Voice Index. [PDF]

open access: yesLaryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol, 2023
Liao CE   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cognitive load in remote simultaneous interpreting: place name translation in two Mandarin variants

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study examined the accuracy of place name translation during remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) when interpreters were required to use a different variant of their native language. Participants, professional English/ Mandarin from mainland China,
Andrew K. F. Cheung
doaj   +1 more source

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