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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Wu Chinese"”.
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Tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese and beyond: patterns of variation and diachronic development
This 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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Choosing a college and major : the sociopragmatics of advice-requesting and giving in Jinyun Wu Chinese
… of naturally occurring conversation in Jinyun Wu Chinese in College and major advising sessions, this study describes the speech event of advising, including the component speech acts of advice-requesting and advice-giving. The roles of the variables, social distance and social power relations …
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Fricative Vowels in Changzhou Wu: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study
… their typological scarcity. Taking Changzhou Wu as a case study, this thesis investigates the phonetic and phonological aspects of fricative vowels, particularly coronal fricative vowels. The production of Changzhou Wu fricative vowels from both acoustics and articulation perspectives and …