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Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages

, 2001
Abstract This analysis includes a description of language-contact phenomena such as stratification, hybridization, and convergence for Sinitic languages. It also presents typologically unusual grammatical features for Sinitic such as double-patient constructions, negative existential constructions and agentive adversative pass ives ...
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How the Turtle Lost its Shell: Sino-Tibetan Divination Manuals and Cultural Translation [PDF]

, 2018
This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Poupard, Duncan J
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Two Constraints on Tonal Derivation in Chinese [PDF]

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2005
This paper aims to further examine two working constraints on tonal derivation proposed in some recent generative studies on Changting, namely One Step Principle (OSP) and Moving Windows Constraint (MWC). Our extension of the scope of discussion to other
Hui-chuan Hsu
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Japanese and Modernization of the Chinese Language [PDF]

, 2014
New Trend on Asian ...
Shen Guowei, 沈 国威
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Tones in Cantonese English and Musical Intervals [PDF]

, 2014
Poster PresentationConference Theme: Linguistic Diversity in Asia: Theories and MethodsThe Program and Abstracts can be viewed at: http://linguistics.hku.hk/summer/CONF.pdfIt has been shown that the relative pitch levels of Cantonese tones closely ...
Yiu, SSY
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Between The Global And The Local There Are Regions, Culture Areas, And States: A Review Article [PDF]

, 2002
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Evans, GRJ
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Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: on-going loss of low tone breathy voice in Shanghai Chinese

Papers 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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The average Chinese language: an outline of typological profile [PDF]

, 2011
The Workshop was held in conjunction with ALT9, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 21-24 July 2011.The Chinese-speaking people have developed a sizable population for centuries over a vast territory.
Ding, PS
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Chinese dialects, revolutionary war & economic performance [PDF]

, 2020
In this paper, we explore the effects of dialectal diversity on economic performance by drawing evidence from Chinese prefecture-level cities. Our dataset is a panel of 5-year average data over the period from 2001 to 2015 including 274 cities.
Grigoriadis, Theocharis, Zhu, Junbing
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The Transformation and Cultural Adaptation of Jātaka Elements in Classic Malay Literature

Religions
The literature of the Malay world, profoundly influenced by Indian traditions, frequently adheres to the narrative patterns found in Indian literature. With the rise of Islam, literary works in the Parrot Story collection were used to propagate Islamic ...
Siaw Hung Ng
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