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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Taiwan Mandarin"”.
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Speech Reception Threshold Materials for Taiwan Mandarin
… develop, digitally record, evaluate, and equate Taiwan Mandarin trisyllabic words which can be used to measure the SRT. Eighty-nine commonly used trisyllabic words were chosen and digitally recorded by native male and female speakers. The words were then presented to 20 normally hearing subjects …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Bisyllabic Word Lists for Word Recognition Testing in Taiwan Mandarin
… evaluate, and psychometrically equate a set of Taiwan Mandarin bisyllabic word lists to be used for word recognition testing. Frequently used bisyllabic words were selected and digitally recorded by male and female talkers of Taiwan Mandarin. Twenty normally hearing subjects were presented each …
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A Comparison of Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin Tone Register: An Acoustic Analysis of Three Native Speech Styles
… register differences 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 …
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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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The Effect of Regional Dialect on the Validity and Reliability of Word Recognition Scores
… of word recognition scores from two sets of Mandarin speech audiometry materials. Four lists of bisyllabic words in Mainland Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin dialects were administered to 16 participants of each dialect with normal hearing across two test sessions. The performance on materials …
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Negation and Aspect: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties
… 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 …