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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Mandarin Chinese"”.
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Interpreting Complex Noun Phrases in Mandarin Chinese
It has been observed that word order and intonational prominence in MC NPs tend to correlate with definite and indefinite readings of the NPs. Based on recurring interpretive patterns in MC, I show that in MC, definite readings are expressed by lexical and constructional meaning, the interpretation …
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Invitations in American English and Mandarin Chinese
… patterns of speakers of American English and Mandarin Chinese with two research questions in mind: 1) To what extent do native American English and Mandarin Chinese speakers differ in making invitations? 2) To what extent is the use of an initial ambiguous invitation related to the degree of …
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Porting the galaxy system to Mandarin Chinese
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Subjectivity and Nominal Property Concepts in Mandarin Chinese
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, 2021
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Discourse connectives and discourse structure in Mandarin Chinese
… an investigation of discourse connectives in Mandarin Chinese beyond the syntactic level, an investigation of relationship patterns in a coherent plan, and an analysis of the contribution of connectives to a higher level of discourse structure.
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Sentence -Final Particles as Attitude Markers in Mandarin Chinese
Chinese sentence-final particles have no denotations (truth-conditional meanings) and thus do not affect the truth condition of the sentences. Therefore, they cannot be treated in truth-conditional semantics. Although their co-occurrence with certain constructions is not random, rules of syntax …
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The effectiveness of tonal spelling in learning Mandarin Chinese
… have difficulty in remembering tones of Chinese words accurately. Many textbooks use ""Pinyin,"" (the romanization system of mainland China) which uses superscript marks to indicate tones. Yuen Ren Chao (1964, p. 11) asserted that using spelling to indicate tone served as a more powerful …
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Language contact and convergence: Englishization of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan
The Englishization of Chinese occurs as a consequence of translations into Chinese of Western literary works, mainly from English, in the written mode.
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Acoustic analysis and synthesis of nasal codas in Mandarin Chinese
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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The syntax and processing of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese
… relative clauses (henceforth RCs) in Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Taiwan from both syntactic and processing perspectives. I also explore the interaction between these two areas, for example, how evidence from one area lends support to or undermines theories in the other area. There …
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Supralaryngeal Articulator Movements and Laryngeal Control in Mandarin Chinese Tonal Production
Results indicated that there was interaction and coordination between the supralaryngeal and the laryngeal systems. The influence of vocal tract configuration on F0 of vowels was noted for all participants. However, not all participants demonstrated the influence of F0 control on vowel quality. …
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The Syntax-Morphology Interface of Verb-Complement Compounds in Mandarin Chinese
… modular analysis of verb-complement compounds in Mandarin Chinese. As the evidence indicates, a syntactic or lexical analysis is proposed for different types of compounds. As a result, this analysis can better account for the individual properties of each type of compound. This approach differs …
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Applying Vendler's verbal categories to Mandarin Chinese and issues in telicity
Includes bibliographical references.
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Processing of proper names in Mandarin Chinese : a behavioral and neuroimaging study
… several thousand years in ancient Greek and in Chinese philosophy of language (e.g., Kripke, 1972; Wu, 1997). Furthermore, this dissociation has been supported by experimental data (e.g., Müller & Kutas, 1996) and case studies (e.g., Lyons, 2002). This dissertation explores the processing of …
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The effects of verb bias, context and tasks on mandarin Chinese reflexives
The interpretation of Mandarin reflexives can be ambiguous, especially if there are multiple possible antecedents mentioned in the context prior to the reflexives. Misunderstanding between speakers and listeners can happen if listeners misinterpret the referent of the reflexives that speakers …
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Definiteness and Specificity in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
… and (non-)specificity by L2 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 …
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Incorporating pitch features for tone modeling in automatic recognition of Mandarin Chinese
Tone plays a fundamental role in Mandarin Chinese, as it plays a lexical role in determining the meanings of words in spoken Mandarin. For example, these two sentences ... (I like horses) and ... (I like to scold) differ only in the tone carried by the last syllable. Thus, the inclusion of …
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How Plurality Is Encoded in Classifier Languages: A Case Study of Mandarin Chinese
… explore the formal structure of noun phrases in Mandarin Chinese and how the proposed structure can be employed to encode plurality in Mandarin Chinese through morpho-syntactic means. The dissertation consists of six chapters. In Chapter 1, I introduce the concept of classifier languages, …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Development of Mandarin Chinese in Fourth Grade Chinese Immersion
… in these programs, and particularly in Chinese immersion, is less common. In this dissertation, an attempt is made to address this gap in research by exploring the literacy development of fourth grade Chinese immersion students. Participants were 70 students, the entire fourth grade of …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Digital Recordings for Speech Audiometry Testing in Mandarin Chinese: Standard Mandarin Dialect
… recorded speech audiometry materials in Mandarin Chinese has been limited to date. High quality materials proliferate in the English language and have been developed for other languages such as Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, Polish, and Russian. The aims …
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