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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Standard Mandarin"”.
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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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Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang
… messages often disseminate slang not found in Standard Mandarin; nevertheless, some of these slang expressions have become so widely accepted that they have been entered into the official Xinhua dictionary. The goal of this study was to examine the attitude of young Chinese Internet users …
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新加坡华语中的方言词融合程度 = INTEGRATION OF DIALECT WORDS IN SINGAPORE MANDARIN
… the dynamic usage of dialect words in Singapore Mandarin. By using the methods of determining lexical integration as proposed by Hasselmo (1969), Mackey (1970) and Poplack & Sankoff (1984), this paper attempts to divide the dialect word integration into five levels and gives possible reasons …
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A historical and sociolinguistic approach to language change in Mandarin Chinese: Corpus evidence for the development of YOU-MEI-YOU
… analyses of a syntactic construction in Standard Mandarin, YOU-MEI-YOU (or ‘have-not-have’)+VP, which is used to form perfective questions. The purpose of the study is to (i) find evidence for the claim that preverbal YOU-MEI-YOU, i.e. YOU-MEI-YOU found in the new construction, is …
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Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Representation and Interaction with Utterance-level Prosody
In Standard Mandarin, there are syllables that do not carry any of the four citation tones (T1: High-level tone, T2: Mid-rising tone, T3: Low-convex tone and T4: High-falling tone), and they are said to have a neutral tone (NT). These syllables are usually shorter, lighter, prosodically grouped …