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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Cantonese"”.
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Tone Change in Cantonese
… known as bianyin, or 'tone change', in Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China involves an alternation between any of the six non-high tones and the high rising tone--or, for a very limited number of morphemes, the high level tone. This study gives an analytical account of …
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Modernising Cantonese opera through contemporary sound production design
… on the development of world theatre at large. Cantonese opera is one of the Xiqu genres in Southern China. It shares a strong inseparable historical and cultural background with Hong Kong. In 2009, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization classified Cantonese opera …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Trisyllabic Words for Speech Reception Threshold Testing in Cantonese
… develop, digitally record, evaluate, and equate Cantonese trisyllabic words which could then be used in the measurement of the speech reception threshold. A selection of 90 frequently utilized trisyllabic words were selected and then digitally recorded by male and female talkers of Standard …
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Negation and Aspect: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties
… 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 requirements of the negators. In negative …
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Correspondence Patterns and Perceptual Distance of Consonants Between Southern Min and Cantonese
… perception of initial consonants between Cantonese and Southern Min. An overall study of Chinese dialects and a more in-depth study of Cantonese and Southern Min are presented first in this dissertation. Following are the empirical studies including how Cantonese speakers establish sound …
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Cantonese women workers & job change under industrial restructuring in Boston, 1970-1990
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Psychometrically Equivalent Cantonese Bisyllabic Word Recognition Materials Spoken by Male and Female Talkers
… equivalent word lists in the language of Cantonese for word recognition testing. Frequently used bisyllabic Cantonese words were recorded by a native female and male talker. The word lists were evaluated by administering the word recognition lists to 20 native speakers of Cantonese with …
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Development of Cantonese as a heritage language in children: Experiments in phonology and morphosyntax
This dissertation examines the development of Cantonese in young heritage speakers (age of testing 3;10–12;3) in New York City. These heritage speakers were raised speaking predominantly Cantonese at home, but were exposed to English (the majority language) from a young age. The research …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… study of women’s cross-dressing performance in Cantonese opera (yueju) productions in Hong Kong since the 1950s. Stemming from ethnographic research conducted from 2012 to 2016, my study concerns issues of women’s history, fandom, and social identity (gender, cultural, and national). Taking a …
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Second generation internal immigrants' bilingual practices and identity construction in Guangzhou, China
… of immigrants, and the dominant local speech, Cantonese, is unintelligible to immigrants who speak other language varieties, including China’s official language Putonghua. Since 2010 debates have arisen on the relationship between the state language policy of Putonghua Promotion which has been …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
… (L3) acquisition by comparing bilingual Guangxi Cantonese and Mandarin learners of English (L3 learners) and Mandarin learners of English (L2 learners) in two writing tasks: story retelling and Chinese-to-English translation. The data constituted a self-built corpus of the written production of …
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Definiteness and Specificity in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
… and L3 Mandarin speakers with prior knowledge of Cantonese and/or English. While English has an article system marking the [±definite] features but not the [±specific] features, Mandarin and Cantonese realise these features through a more complex system of bare nouns, classifiers, numerals, …
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Focal prominence in tone languages: A case study of three Chinese languages
… of focal prominence in three Chinese languages: Cantonese, Chengdu Mandarin, and Changsha Xiang. These languages, each representing a unique dialect group with distinct tonal systems, present novel opportunities for sentence-level prosodic comparisons. Using uniform experimental protocols and …
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Pastoral perceptions of church ministry functions in Canadian Chinese churches
… to the pastoral perception of tension among the Cantonese, Mandarin, and English-speaking congregations in Canadian Chinese churches. The research population of the pastors of Chinese churches in the Greater Toronto Area was defined and delimited as those who are active members of the Toronto …
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IHSS: Repackaging Consumer Information
… within the population: English, Spanish, Cantonese, and Russian.</p> <p>Findings: The study showed that consumers did not k what information to find after enrollment. Instead, consumers were navigating the IHSS program without any navigational resources. Higher dissatisfaction was found …
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The Sociocultural Milieux of ‘Chinese’ Language Learning in Belfast: Diaspora and Difference
This dissertation investigates Mandarin and Cantonese language learning and Chinese identity formation amongst young people of Chinese descent in Northern Ireland. It explores their attitude to language learning in domestic and Chinese Language School (CLS) environments and their parents’ and …
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Loanwords and the perceptual map : a perspective from MaxEnt Learning
… a case study of English loanword adaptation in Cantonese is undertaken.
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Plantains in the rain
… in the Rain" is an early masterpiece of Cantonese music (a type of Chinese traditional instrumental ensemble music). The piece depicts the pattering of rain drops on plantains in early summer. My composition Plantains in the Rain for orchestra has shown how I got inspiration from the …
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Sounding Chinese: Tracing the Voice of Early 20th Century to Present day Transnational Chinese
… parts of China (for example Toisanese and Cantonese) but that English words and phrases were transcribed using their corresponding pronunciations. These phrase books helped them articulate words of a language they had not heard before, the unfamiliar sounds made familiar, the alien brought …
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