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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Beijing Mandarin"”.
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A Comparison of Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin Tone Register: An Acoustic Analysis of Three Native Speech Styles
… between native speakers of Taiwan and Beijing Mandarin by means of an acoustic analysis of three speech styles. Speech styles included spontaneous interview, spontaneous descriptive, and controlled read sentential speech. Data analysis included long segments of recorded speech in order …
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Cross-regional word duration patterns in Mandarin
… dissertation explores the duration patterns of Mandarin words among three Mandarin dialectal regions---Beijing, Taiwan, and Malaysia. This dissertation brings diverse methodologies on speech data collection, annotation, and corpus construction to investigate linguistic pattern. Three speech …
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Variability in cross-dialectal production and perception of contrasting phonemes: the case of the alveolar-retroflex contrast in Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin
… contrast is a critical feature in Mandarin and is often used to differentiate Beijing Mandarin from other dialects of Mandarin like Taiwan Mandarin. While a number of linguistic and sociolinguistic factors have been found to affect the alveolar-retroflex contrast, leading to …
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Negation and Aspect: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties
… aspectual marking. The comparative study of Beijing Mandarin, Taiwan Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese, and the previously unstudied Gaozhou Cantonese demonstrates that the aspectual sensitivity of negation is governed by more general structural properties than idiosyncratic aspectual selection …