The Southwestern Mandarin /n/-/l/ Merger: Effects on Production in Standard Mandarin and English [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Southwestern Mandarin is one of the most important modern Chinese dialects, with over 270 million speakers. One of its most noticeable phonological features is an inconsistent distinction between the pronunciation of (n) and (l), a feature shared with ...
Wei Zhang, John M. Levis
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Characterization of the cpt1b Gene in Response to a Tributyrin-Supplemented Diet: Cloning, Tissue-Specific Expression, and Intestinal Metabolic Function in Mandarin Fish (Siniperca chuatsi) [PDF]
Current Issues in Molecular BiologyTributyrin (TB), as a novel feed additive, holds broad market prospects and is crucial for promoting fish growth and maintaining intestinal health.
Er-Xue Xu +6 more
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Near-Merger and Contextual Sensitivity in the Perception of /n-l/ in Sichuan Mandarin [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Sichuan Mandarin is often described as exhibiting overlap or merger between word-initial /n/ and /l/, but perceptual sensitivity across phonetic contexts remains underexplored.
Minghao Zheng +2 more
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Applied SciencesLanyin Mandarin is a major regional variety of Mandarin Chinese with phonological characteristics that interact with the acquisition of the codified Standard Mandarin norm.
Yali Liu +3 more
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Standard language proficiency as social capital: Impacts on subjective socioeconomic status in China. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAlthough language proficiency-especially in a standard language-has been widely studied as an indicator of social status and mobility, its relationship with subjective socioeconomic status (SES) requires closer examination.
Yangyang Wei, Xin Cai
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Characters for dialects: from vernacular Baihua to the Internet [PDF]
Восточная Азия: факты и аналитика, 2021 Due to the possibilities of computer typesetting new forms of word representation with various scripts are known to appear even in Standard Mandarin texts written by Internet users.
Zavyalova O.I.
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Language policy and language resources on the Chinese Internet [PDF]
Восточная Азия: факты и аналитика, 2020 The language policy and planning in the PRC are represented on various official central and local websites. The annual statistical analysis of Chinese words and characters used online are among the tasks, set by the authorities before the linguists ...
Zavyalova O.I.
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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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Processing neutral tone under the non-attentional condition: a mismatch negativity study [PDF]
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2021 The neutral tone is a unique tone form in Mandarin as it distinguishes from four canonical tones or full tones on the one hand and integrates phonetic, morphological, syntactical and prosodic information on the other hand.
Wei-Jing Zhou +3 more
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Impact of optimized pest control schemes on mandarin yield in the Republic of Abkhazia [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2021 Pests of mandarin reduce significantly crop productivity and commercial quality of the crop in Abkhazia. We assessed the impact of optimized mandarin pest control schemes on fruit size and crop yield in the humid subtropics of Abkhazia.
Karpun Natalia +3 more
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