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Ancient Connections of Sinitic
Languages, 2023 Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian) are briefly outlined.
David Bradley
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Languages, 2023 From the perspective of areal linguistics, this paper examines the similarities in tonal behavior between Sinitic and Kam-Tai, the two most populous language groups in Lingnan.
Hanbo Liao
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Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview
Languages, 2023 Sinitic languages are very often described as tenseless, since they are generally seen as lacking ‘true’ grammatical markers of tense: thus, the interpretation of time reference relies on other factors, such as aspect, modal verbs, and the use of time ...
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
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Of Mamak stalls and Malaysian weather: Sinitic languages and identity in Ah Niu (阿牛)’s sinophone Malaysian pop music [PDF]
Comunicación, 2023 Malaysia is home to a sizeable ethnic Chinese community that speaks several Sinitic languages. As such, it is not only an importer of Sinophone culture, but also an important site of Sinitic-language cultural production.
Antonio Paoliello
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Dutch-Cantonese Bilinguals Show Segmental Processing during Sinitic Language Production [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 This study addressed the debate on the primacy of syllable vs. segment (i.e., phoneme) as a functional unit of phonological encoding in syllabic languages by investigating both behavioral and neural responses of Dutch-Cantonese (DC) bilinguals in a color-
Kalinka Timmer +3 more
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Verbal reduplication in Sinitic [PDF]
, 2014 The main aim of this paper is to underpin the connection between the semantic relationship binding the constituents of verbs and the formal and semantic properties of their reduplication in Sinitic.
Arcodia, Giorgio F. +2 more
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Sinitic in a Global Perspective
, 2018 This chapter focuses on the language rupture in East Asia, that is to say, the loss of the common written language known as literary Chinese or Sinitic. The gradual replacement of the cosmopolitan language Sinitic by the written vernaculars was a process
Peter Francis Kornicki
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EncyclopediaSinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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Multi-Dialectal Representation Learning of Sinitic Phonology [PDF]
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), 2023 Machine learning techniques have shown their competence for representing and reasoning in symbolic systems such as language and phonology. In Sinitic Historical Phonology, notable tasks that could benefit from machine learning include the comparison of ...
Jia, Zhibai
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Grammaticalization in Sinitic Languages
, 2012 International audienceThis article provides an overview of the history of grammaticalization in Sinitic languages. It discusses the evolution of the disposal or object marking constructions, passive and causative constructions, and classifiers. The model
Peyraube, Alain, Chappell, Hilary
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