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Mol Genet Genomic Med, 2020 19 X‐STRs can afford a reliable and informative database of Guizhou Tujia population for human identification and paternity testing, especially in complex biological relations. The genetic relationships of Chinese populations are significantly influenced by the geographic position and ethnolinguistic origin.
Luo L +9 more
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Metamorphosis of a diplomatic interpreting event in ancient China
Interpreting and Society, 2023 This article discusses how the earliest known interpreting event in Sinitic China was chronicled and recapped in political and literary writings across different dynasties, in an intertextual process comparable with metamorphosis.
Rachel Lung
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Topolects in Motion: Narrative Possibilities for Language Vitality among Mobile Chinese‐Canadians
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 431-452, August 2022., 2022 This article examines the language autobiographies of 12 Chinese‐Canadians to address how topolects (Ch. fangyan)—spoken language varieties marking place‐based belonging—formulate identity once removed from their original places. We found that narrators located topolects in their pasts and homelands, while associating standard Mandarin with mobility ...
Shannon Ward +2 more
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The Sinitic poetry of Fujiwara Seika and his place in the history of early modern kanbun literature
Японские исследования, 2022 Fujiwara Seika (藤原惺窩, 1561–1619) has often attracted scholarly attention as one of the founders of Neo-Confucianism in Japan. Yet his substantial literary oeuvre, which includes works in both literary Sinitic (Jp. kanbun 漢文) and Japanese, remains largely
M. V. Skovoronskikh
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Voice and Little v and VO–OV Word‐Order Variation in Chinese Languages
Syntax, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 44-77, March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article addresses some issues related to Voice and little v. It does so by discussing and analyzing the variation that exists in the Chinese language family with respect to object placement (VO versus OV). It turns out that this variation can be accounted for straightforwardly as long as we assume, first, that Voice and v are sometimes ...
Rint Sybesma
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Vowel Quality in Xiang Non-Lexical Hesitation Markers: New Forms of Typological Evidence?
Languages, 2023 Xiang (hsn) remains a poorly understood grouping within Sinitic, with no satisfactory conclusions on how to demarcate its boundaries or define its subgroupings.
Robert Marcelo Sevilla
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The Odae chinŏn (Five Great Mantras) and Dhāraṇī Collections in Premodern Korea
Religions, 2022 The Five Great Mantras (Odae chinŏn) is one of the most widely circulated collections of Buddhist dhāraṇīs in premodern Korea, having been published or existing in several variant editions during the Chosŏn period (1392–1910).
Richard D. McBride
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Dutch-Cantonese Bilinguals Show Segmental Processing during Sinitic Language Production
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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Mol Genet Genomic Med, 2020 Abstract Background Shaanxi province, located in the upper Yellow River, has been evidenced as the geographic origin of Chinese civilization, Sino‐Tibetan‐speaking language, and foxtail or broomcorn millet farmers via the linguistic phylogenetic spectrum, archeological documents, and genetic evidence. Nowadays, Han Chinese is the dominant population in
Li L +6 more
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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]
, 2019 List J-M, Starostin G, Yunfan L. “Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. Journal of Language Relationship.
Lai, Y., List, J., Starostin, G.
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