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The translated identities of Chinese minority writers : Sinophone Naxi authors

open access: yes, 2017
This paper will show the interplay between language and identity in the writing of Sinophone Chinese minority writers, who write what can be envisioned as a form of postcolonial literature.
POUPARD, Duncan
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A quest for effective and inclusive design of Chinese characters in subtitling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Research on subtitling has developed rapidly in most Western countries in the last two decades, resulting in a certain consensus about standards. In response to new social and political challenges, in recent years the focus of research has broadened to ...
Casas-Tost, Helena, Rovira-Esteva, Sara
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KLSBench: Evaluating LLM Capabilities on Korean Literary Sinitic Texts in Historical Context

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) show limited capability in processing low-resource historical languages due to insufficient training data and domain-specific linguistic structures.
Seung-Hyun Han   +3 more
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Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: on-going loss of low tone breathy voice in Shanghai Chinese

open access: yesPapers in Historical Phonology, 2016
This study focuses on the on-going disappearance of low tone breathiness in Shanghai Chinese. In the change from a voicing contrast to a tone register contrast in Sinitic languages, the ancient voiced series was characterised by a breathy voice quality ...
Jiayin Gao
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Tone and intonation: introductory notes and practical recommendations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
International audienceThe present article aims to propose a simple introduction to the topics of (i) lexical tone, (ii) intonation, and (iii) tone-intonation interactions, with practical recommendations for students.
Michaud, Alexis, Vaissière, Jacqueline
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Is GIVE reliable for genealogical relatedness? A case study of extricable etyma of GIVE in Huī Chinese

open access: yesOpen Linguistics
This study provides an etymological study of one of the basic lexical items GIVE in a sample of 24 varieties of Huī Chinese, a lesser-known transitional group of Sinitic languages.
Hui Man-Shan, Lu Wen
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Macau, Bali and the Malay World: A Gastronomic Perspective

open access: yesJurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies)
Macau’s location on the South China Sea suggests that any syncretic activity would have been of Sinitic-Portuguese variety. However, the situation is rather more nuanced, as the culture of the Macanese people, who consider themselves the ‘sons of the ...
Annabel Jackson   +2 more
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Symmetric and asymmetric alternations in direct object encoding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines two different strategies found in direct object encoding on the basis of a sample of 159 languages. In particular, this paper deals with the differences between symmetric (i.e.
Iemmolo, Giorgio
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