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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Chinese languages"”.
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Focal prominence in tone languages: A case study of three Chinese languages
… realisation 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 …
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A formal study of syllable, tone, stress and domain in Chinese languages
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990.
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The phonetics and phonology of tone mapping in a constraint-based approach
… phonological aspects of tone mapping in various Chinese languages. The central issue addressed is the role of contrast and positional prominence and neutralization in the realization of tone. The inventory of tonal contrasts constrains the outputs of contextual neutralization as well as the …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
<p>Early literacy studies in American preschool, Chinese school and home settings have reported very different sets of beliefs and practices about writing and learning. However, few studies have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices …
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Tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese and beyond: patterns of variation and diachronic development
… thesis investigates tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese, an under-documented dialect within the Northern Wu group, with a focus on disyllabic and trisyllabic domains. Drawing on fieldwork data, it provides the first systematic acoustic documentation and analysis of Xiangshan tone sandhi. The …
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Firearms, technology and culture: resistance of Taiwanese indigenes to Chinese, European and Japanese encroachment in a global context circa 1860-1914
… in resistance against the Western, Japanese and Chinese invasions in the period of 1860-1914. I argue that through the avenues of access to firearms and their absorption into indigenous cultures, the Taiwanese indigenes preserved some of their cultural and economic independence. The firearm did …