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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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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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From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a
Chu-Ren Huang +3 more
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On Structural Particles in Sinitic Languages: Typology and Diachrony
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022 In the Chinese linguistic tradition, the term ‘structural particle(s)’ (jiégòu zhùcí 结构助词) is used to refer to functional elements that mainly act as markers of adnominal modification, nominalisation, adverbial modification and in the so-called verb ...
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco
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An Ethnolinguistic Remark on the fēiyī 飛衣
Bhasha, 2023 This paper inquires the relationship between two Trans-Himalayan languages, namely Lohorung (Eastern Kiranti) and Old Chinese (Sinitic) by comparing their ‘soul’-related vocabulary.
Hürlimann, Simon
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Sinitic Poetry in Early Heian Japan: Kidendō Literacy, Banquet Culture, and the Sugawara House
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2021 In this paper, I explore the intimate connection between the Sugawara House and the composition of Sinitic poetry for institutionalised poetry banquets in early Heian Japan.
Minguzzi, Dario
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Chinese language: terminology in the 21st century [PDF]
Восточная Азия: факты и аналитика, 2020 The past and present diversity of the Chinese-speaking world, as well as different history of Sinological studies, in particular, in Russia and in the West, caused the appearance of a complicated varying terminology used in modern Chinese linguistics ...
Zavyalova O.I.
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Chinese and Western Comedy – an Introduction into Cross-Cultural Humour Research between Taiwan, China and the West [PDF]
Nowa Polityka Wschodnia, 2019 The use of humour, both proper and improper, can influence the outcomes of meetings and shape entire relationships. Hence, although often trivial in nature, humour can play a significant role in human lives and deserves to be taken seriously. The same is
Konrad Piwowarczyk
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the learner‐related factors of language dominance, encompassing language history, proficiency, use, and attitude, modulate congruency effects in multi‐word unit (MWU) processing among early bilinguals. Seventy Cantonese–Putonghua bilinguals completed lexical decision tasks measuring reaction time and accuracy for ...
Mingjia Cai, Yuan Liang
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