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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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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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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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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 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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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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A general method for the statistical evaluation of typological distributions [PDF]

, 2010
The distribution of linguistic structures in the world is the joint product of universal principles, inheritance from ancestor languages, language contact, social structures, and random fluctuation.
Bickel, Balthasar
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KLSBench: Evaluating LLM Capabilities on Korean Literary Sinitic Texts in Historical Context

Applied Sciences
Large 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, Won-Seok Yang, Xiaohan Ma, Tae-Sun Chung   +3 more
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Sino-African Philosophy: A Re-“Constructive Engagement” [PDF]

, 2019
“Constructive-Engagement” is a meta-philosophical and meta-methodological “strategy” suggested by Chinese and comparative philosophy scholar Bo Mou for analyzing and enriching philosophical exchange.
DOTTIN, Paul A.
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Forms of World Literature and the Taipei Poetry Festival

, 2017
In poetry anthologies and works of literary criticism, the authority to select which literature can become “world” literature often lies with a single editor or theorist.
ADMUSSEN, Nick
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