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Prosodic focus marking in Bai-Mandarin sequential bilinguals’ Mandarin

Speech Prosody 2016, 2016
This study investigates the prosodic marking of focus in sequential bilinguals speaking Bai as their first language and Mandarin Chinese as their second language. Mandarin SVO sentences with varying information structure were elicited through a picture-matching task. The participants were primary school teachers in a Bai speaking community.
Liu, Zenghui, Chen, Aoju, Van de Velde, H.   +2 more
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Universal Quantification in Mandarin

2020
Mandarin universal terms such as mei-NPs in preverbal positions usually require the presence of dou ‘all/even’. This motivates the widely accepted idea from Lin (1998) that Mandarin does not have genuine (distributive) universal quantifiers, and mei-NPs are disguised plural definites, which thus need dou – a distributive operator (or an adverbial ...
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The tonal phonology of mandarin

Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 1980
Yip Moira. The tonal phonology of mandarin. In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, vol. 7, 1980. pp. 47-57.
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Computer synthesis of Mandarin

ICASSP '76. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005
Mandarin was synthesized using a computer-controlled speech synthesizer. The four tones and the neutral one in the unstressed syllable were constructed by varying the pitch of the phoneme string. A passage and a list of single syllables were generated for an experiment.
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« Lettrés, mandarins et mandarins lettrés »

2009
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Mandarin and the Mandarins: Language policy and the media in Singapore

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1980
Abstract The current language situation in Singapore is outlined and its relation to demographic and political changes over the last 30 years is indicated. Reasons for the pre‐eminence of English in Singapore are adduced and the appeal of Mandarin as the official, if presently rather little used, Chinese language of Singapore is described.
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MANDARIN FEET

American Journal of Roentgenology, 1973
M E, Mottram, I R, Pyle
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A Comparison of Taiwanese, Taiwan Mandarin, and Peking Mandarin

Language, 1985
Taiwan Mandarin (TM) is the variety which is learned and used, primarily as a second language, by the people of Taiwan, 80% of whom speak Taiwanese (Tw), a variety of Minnan, as a native language. Taking Peking Mandarin (PM) as the designated standard, this paper identifies those PM features which (a) are not common in TM, e.g.
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A contrastive investigation of standard Mandarin and accented Mandarin

8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), 2003
Aijun Li, Xia Wang
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Perceptual Processing of Mandarin Nasals by L1 and L2 Mandarin Speakers

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011
Nasals are cross-linguistically susceptible to change, especially in the syllable final position. Acoustic reports on Mandarin nasal production have recently shown that the syllable-final distinction is frequently dropped. Few studies, however, have addressed the issue of perceptual processing in Mandarin nasals for L1 and L2 speakers of Mandarin ...
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