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Variegated VC Rime Restrictions in Sinitic Languages
Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2019 In this study, we consider a non-Markedness-based account for VC rime phonotactics in Sinitic languages, with special reference to Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka. Rime gaps in Chinese languages have been customarily analyzed as co-occurrence markedness constraints.
Chiachih Lo +2 more
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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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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 Transformation and Cultural Adaptation of Jātaka Elements in Classic Malay Literature
ReligionsThe 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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How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?
Linguistic Discovery, 2015 Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013).
Frenando Zúñiga
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KLSBench: Evaluating LLM Capabilities on Korean Literary Sinitic Texts in Historical Context
Applied SciencesLarge language models (LLMs) show limited capability in processing low-resource historical languages due to insufficient training data and domain-specific linguistic structures.
Seung-Hyun Han +3 more
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The non-Sinitic languages of Yunnan-Sichuan
, 2017 Article pour l'encyclopédie "Encyclopedia of Chinese Linguistics", éditée par Rint Sybesma, Wolfgang Behr, Zev Handel, James C.-T. Huang et James Meyers. Leiden: Brill, Vol III, 215-218.
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Open LinguisticsThis study provides an etymological study of one of the basic lexical items GIVE in a sample of 24 varieties of Huī Chinese, a lesser-known transitional group of Sinitic languages.
Hui Man-Shan, Lu Wen
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe Tanka people, colloquially known as the “boat people”, are primarily located in Southeast China. Over time, their transition from a maritime to a land-based lifestyle has significantly influenced the languages they speak, particularly through contact
Cong Wang +3 more
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Historical narratives and sociolinguistic factors affecting language use of the Hakkas in Thailand
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe Hakka people, a subgroup within the Han Chinese ethnicity and part of the Southern Sinitic language family, have migrated from China to various regions in Southeast Asia over several centuries.
Sutthiphod Phiranawong +2 more
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