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Nasal coda neutralization in Shanghai Mandarin: Articulatory and perceptual evidence
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 Shanghai Mandarin is reported to neutralize /n/ and /ŋ/ after non-low vowels, a change also reported for other varieties of Chinese. However, the place of articulation of the resulting nasal is unclear.
Matthew Faytak +2 more
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Standard Language Variation in Chinese: Some Insights from Both Theory and Practice
Critical Multilingualism Studies, 2020 In the discourse on pluricentricity, standard language variation within the Chinese language has rarely been addressed, even though it is the most widely spoken language in the world and steadily gains in popularity amongst foreign language learners ...
Sandra Kaltenegger
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Phonological Identity of the Neutral-tone Syllables in Taiwan Mandarin: An Acoustic Study
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2018 Taiwan Mandarin, one of the more syllable-timed dialects of Mandarin, has fewer unstressed syllables than Standard Mandarin. Acoustic analyses show that the supposedly unstressed syllables—neutral-tone syllables—in Taiwan Mandarin behave differently ...
Karen HUANG
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 Essential oils are promising sources for producing alternative fuel, owing to their sustainability and obtainability. Thus, this article aimed to investigate the impacts of introducing mandarin-essential oil with diesel fuel on the engine performance ...
M.S. Gad +3 more
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Humaniora, 2013 Teaching material is the important component in teaching and learning process, therefore, choosing the correct one will make easy the achievement of the learning objective. The Education National Standard Foundation (Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan)
Sri Haryanti
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A Mandarin Tone Recognition Algorithm Based on Random Forest and Feature Fusion †
Mathematics, 2023 In human–computer interaction (HCI) systems for Mandarin learning, tone recognition is of great importance. A brand-new tone recognition method based on random forest (RF) and feature fusion is proposed in this study.
Jiameng Yan +7 more
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Linguistic barriers and healthcare in China: Chaoshan vs. Mandarin
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background China has 129 dialects with Mandarin as the standard and Chaoshan as the major dialect of the Chaoshan region in Guangdong. This study aimed to describe the dialect competence and usage, communication difficulty, impact of linguistic barriers,
Dangui Zhang +7 more
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Penerapan Sistem Pembelajaran Bahasa Mandarin Di Beberapa Sekolah Di Indonesia
Lingua Cultura, 2011 Since Mandarin Language is started to be implemented at schools, many schools begin the learning process of this language. Unfortunately, they do not consider the teacher’s ability in delivering the knowledge. There are a lot of teachers without the
Sri Haryanti
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Timing patterns of tone and vowel in Mandarin: Evidence from f0-F1 turning point synchrony [PDF]
JASA Express LettersWe examine timing patterns of tone and vowel acoustics in Xi'an and Standard Mandarin. Using f0 and F1 difference trajectories between rising tone 2 and corresponding high-level tones in the diphthongs /ai/ and /au/ modelled with generalized additive ...
Chenyu Li, Jalal Al-Tamimi
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