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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"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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The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind
<p>This study will examine and contrast two periods of xenophobia and stagnation, late Qing dynasty China, and the PRC under Mao, with a genuine market place of ideas, Shanghai and the other foreign treaty ports in the period 1849 to 1949, and explain how this period of cosmopolitan ferment has had …
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Syntactic Attrition in L2 Mandarin Speakers
… how syntactic skill was maintained or lost by L2 Mandarin Chinese learners over time. In addition, this study endeavored to discover how a learner's L1 affects the attrition process of word order in Mandarin Chinese. To find out how certain Chinese syntactic structures were subject to attrition …
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Audiovisual perception of Mandarin lexical tones.
… focused on audiovisual perception of Mandarin lexical tones. The results of the experiments which employed behavioural and event-related potential measures provided evidence that visual information has an effect on auditory lexical tone perception. First, lexical tone perception …
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Speech Reception Threshold Materials for Taiwan Mandarin
… 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 at 14 …
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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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Grammatical productivity in Mandarin resultative verb compounds
The dissertation investigated the acquisition of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds (RVCs) as a window into the development of grammatical productivity. The project combined exploration of observational data, language elicitation/priming tasks with real words, and novel word learning/testing …
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Cross-regional word duration patterns in Mandarin
… dissertation explores the duration patterns of Mandarin words among three Mandarin dialectal regions---Beijing, Taiwan, and Malaysia. This dissertation brings diverse methodologies on speech data collection, annotation, and corpus construction to investigate linguistic pattern. Three speech …
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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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Agreement restrictions in Mandarin long-distance binding
This thesis investigates the distribution of the Mandarin reflexive ziji. Ziji displays many interesting properties but its long-distance binding distribution has long been of interest to linguists. Ziji displays a blocking effect such that certain arrangements of person features prohibit …
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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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Comprehending Mandarin Relative Clauses: Ambiguity, Locality and Expectation
… was to find out what kinds of cues help Mandarin speakers disambiguate sentences that are temporarily ambiguous. Previous studies have found that Mandarin speakers make rapid use of animacy cues (Lin & Garnsey, 2010), and the studies reported here show that they also use verb-based …
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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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SENSITIVITY TO VOWEL, CONSONANT AND TONE VARIATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: EVIDENCE FROM 6-YEAR-OLD MANDARIN MONOLINGUALS AND ENGLISH-MANDARIN BILINGUALS
… age. In a series of word recognition studies, Mandarin monolinguals and Mandarin-English bilinguals were tested on their sensitivity to tones versus to vowels and consonants. In order to investigate the development of phonological sensitivities, 5.5 to 6.5 year old Mandarin learners were …
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The survival of the mandarin tradition in German universities
… since 1933. It extends the analysis of the mandarin tradition developed by Fritz K. Ringer in his seminal work entitled The Decline of the German Mandarins. In this book Ringer argued that the German professors or mandarins wielded extraordinary socio-political and cultural influence for …
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The Production and Identification of Mandarin Tones in Context
… the thesis is to study the acoustic variation of Mandarin tones produced in context by native Mandarin speakers (Study I) and how these acoustic variations of Mandarin tones influence L2 learners’ identification of Mandarin tones (Study II). Study I revealed that both F0 contour and F0 height of …
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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
"Students frequently 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 …
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The Code-Switching Behavior of Three Mandarin-English Speaking Children
Contrary to the researcher's expectation, physical settings did not emerge as a primary determinant of the children's language choice. Further research needs to explore the role of settings in bilingual children's use of code-switching because the children in this study tended to associate …
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