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 ...
John Levis
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Tonal mapping of Xi'an Mandarin and Standard Chinese
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020 One long-neglected fact in linguistic research on Standard Chinese (SC) is that most speakers of SC also speak a local dialect, which may share phonological features with SC. Tonal information can be a determinant of the phonological similarities or differences between some Chinese dialects and SC, yet relatively little empirical research has been ...
Min, Liu, Yiya, Chen, Niels O, Schiller
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Boundary-conditioned anticipatory tonal coarticulation in Standard Mandarin
Journal of Phonetics, 2021 Abstract The goal of this study is to examine (1) whether and how the F0 contour of a sequence of neutral tones in Standard Mandarin is affected by the following full tone due to anticipatory tonal coarticulation, (2) whether and how the degree of anticipatory tonal coarticulation varies as a function of the strength of an intervening boundary, and ...
Yan Sun, Chilin Shih
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Interrogative and standard disjunction in Mandarin Chinese
Journal of SemanticsAbstract Mandarin Chinese lexically distinguishes the disjunctors in alternative questions (háishi) and in disjunctive assertions (huòzhe), reflecting a distinction that Haspelmath (2007) and others have called interrogative versus standard disjunction.
M. Erlewine
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Balancing net slang and standard Mandarin: implications for education and linguistic sustainability
Discover EducationThis paper examines the rapid evolution of net slang and its consequential impact on Standard Mandarin, highlighting the interplay between net slang and traditional linguistic norms.
Cui Wan, Song Hou
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A comparative study on tone realization in Cantonese-accented Mandarin and standard Mandarin
Speech Prosody 2008, 2008 The paper investigates tone realization in monosyllabic and disyllabic words in Cantonese, Cantonese-spoken Mandarin and Standard Mandarin, focusing on the deviations of tone realization in Cantonese-spoken Mandarin from standard Mandarin in monosyllabic
Jian Jin +3 more
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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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Scientific ReportsEvaluating tone pronunciation is essential for helping second-language (L2) learners master the intricate nuances of Mandarin tones. This article introduces an innovative automatic evaluation method for Mandarin tone pronunciation that employs a Siamese ...
Xiaolong Bu +6 more
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