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Learning and teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A scoping review
Review of Education, Volume 10, Issue 3, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has been published so far. A total of 289 journal articles published in 95 journals were identified and used to provide a bibliometric mapping of research in CFL over three ...
Jessica Chan +3 more
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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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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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, 2023 The assumptions of LFG have been applied to the research on a number of grammatical phenomena in Chinese languages. In this chapter, we present an overviewof some of the studies devoted to investigating the syntactic patterns of two varieties of Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese.
Olivia S.-C. Lam +3 more
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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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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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Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example.
Jingyi Gao
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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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The Semantics of Kinship in Sinitic Languages
, 2022 This chapter provides an overview of scholarly efforts to collect, codify, and explain kinship terms in Chinese history and research on kinship terms in Sinitic languages (Chinese dialects) in general and focuses primarily on distinctive Chinese approaches to the semantics of kinship terms and recent developments in Chinese kinship research.
Xue, Wendi, Ye, Zhengdao
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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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