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REGIONAL ACCENTED MANDARIN TONE

Author : HUANGMEI LIU
Publisher : American Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 163181477X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book REGIONAL ACCENTED MANDARIN TONE written by HUANGMEI LIU and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has its unique value as the pioneer study on the regional variants of Mandarin by experimental phonetics methods, sociophonetic methods, and AI assisted big data methods. Dialectal Mandarins are commonly well-recognized variations for standards Mandarin that have regional characteristics. This book is divided into four parts. The first part introduces Chinese, Chinese dialects, and Mandarin tones. In part two, the book makes a comprehensive and systematic comparison among Beijing Mandarin, Shanghai Mandarin, and Guangzhou Mandarin as the three major Mandarin variants by both the experimental phonetic methods and by using deep learning method. In the deep learning chapter, this book explores whether deep learning can recognize regional dialects patterns from the large amounts of data, and whether it can successfully identify the tonal system of each region’s dialects. The experimental results show that deep learning performs perfectly well in regional dialect recognition and tonal system learning. Liu Yuxuan, a student from USST, provided important technical support for the deep learning experiment. The third part further deepens the research perspective, and studies the geographically close subregional Mandarin. This part involves both acoustic research and perceptual research on three geographically close subregional dialects of Mandarin. The last part is a report on two experiments investigating dialectal experience’s role in predicting listeners’ subjective depiction on both non-categorical and categorical tonal variants of the official language, Putonghua. The dialectal resources recorded in this book are also valuable. The book is supposed to contribute to new progress in academic study on language variation, language evolution, experimental phonetics methods, as well as AI programming.

Hacking Chinese

Author : Olle Linge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781530334889
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Hacking Chinese written by Olle Linge and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Chinese can be frustrating and difficult, partly because it's very different from European languages. Following a teacher, textbook or language course is not enough. They show you the characters, words and grammar you need to become proficient in Chinese, but they don't teach you how to learn them! Regardless of what program you're in (if any), you need to take responsibility for your own learning. If you don't, you will miss many important things that aren't included in the course you're taking. If you study on your own, you need to be even more aware of what you need to do, what you're doing at the moment and the difference between them. Here are some of the questions I have asked and have since been asked many times by students: How do I learn characters efficiently? How do I get the most out of my course or teacher? Which are the best learning tools and resources? How can I become fluent in Mandarin? How can I improve my pronunciation? How do I learn successfully on my own? How can I motivate myself to study more? How can I fit learning Chinese into a busy schedule? The answers I've found to these questions and many others form the core of this book. It took eight years of learning, researching, teaching and writing to figure these things out. Not everybody has the time to do that! I can't go back in time and help myself learn in a better way, but I can help you! This book is meant for normal students and independent language learners alike. While it covers all major areas of learning, you won't learn Chinese just by reading this book. It's like when someone on TV teaches you how to cook: you won't get to eat the delicious dish just by watching the program; you have to do the cooking yourself. That's true for this book as well. When you apply what you learn, it will boost your learning, making every hour you spend count for more, but you still have to do the learning yourself. This is what a few readers have said about the book: "The book had me nodding at a heap of things I'd learnt the hard way, wishing I knew them when I started, as well as highlighting areas that I'm currently missing in my study." - Geoff van der Meer, VP engineering "This publication is like a bible for anyone serious about Chinese proficiency. It's easy for anyone to read and written with scientific precision." - Zachary Danz, foreign teacher, children's theatre artist About me I started learning Chinese when I was 23 (that's more than eight years ago now) and have since studied in many different situations, including serious immersion programs abroad, high-intensity programs in Sweden, online courses, as well as on the side while working or studying other things. I have also successfully used my Chinese in a graduate program for teaching Chinese as a second language, taught entirely in Chinese mostly for native speakers (the Graduate Institute for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University). All these parts have contributed to my website, Hacking Chinese, where I write regularly about how to learn Mandarin.

Essential Mandarin Chinese Grammar

Author : Vivian Ling
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462921280
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Essential Mandarin Chinese Grammar written by Vivian Ling and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Mandarin Chinese Grammar is a systematic overview of Mandarin grammar, oriented toward self-study, English-speaking students. Through explanations of common mistakes learners make, useful example sentences and exercises with an answer key, this book provides a detailed introduction to the unique grammar structures of the Mandarin language. Ideal for any student who is interested in taking their skills to the next level, this book makes the difficult task of perfecting grammar efficient, interesting and rewarding. Essential Mandarin Chinese Grammar is a perfect tool to help you form correct and natural-sounding sentences, and determine how to best use the grammar you need for reading or writing Mandarin. Each example and exercise is written in both pinyin and Simplified Chinese Characters to accommodate learners with varying levels of character literacy, including those who have learned only to speak but not read.

Rough Guide Phrasebook: Mandarin Chinese

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1405388846
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Rough Guide Phrasebook: Mandarin Chinese written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make the most of your trip with the Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook. Find the perfect word or phrase for every situation Use extensive two-way dictionary packed with vocabulary Choose food and drink from any menu Check out travel tips and a regional pronunciation guide Listen to correct pronunciation of essential dialogues DOWNLOAD EASY AUDIOFILES OF CONVERSATIONS FROM www.roughguides.com

Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics

Author : Mineharu Nakayama
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501500589
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics written by Mineharu Nakayama and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies of the Japanese language and psycholinguistics have advanced quite significantly in the last half century thanks to the progress in the study of cognition and brain mechanisms associated with language acquisition, use, and disorders, and in particular, because of technological developments in experimental techniques employed in psycholinguistic studies. This volume contains 18 chapters that discuss our brain functions, specifically, the process of Japanese language acquisition - how we acquire/learn the Japanese language as a first/second language - and the mechanism of Japanese language perception and production - how we comprehend/produce the Japanese language. In turn we address the limitations of our current understanding of the language acquisition process and perception/production mechanism. Issues for future research on language acquisition and processing by users of the Japanese language are also presented. Chapter titles 1. Learning to become a native listener of Japanese (Reiko Mazuka) 2. The nature of the count/mass distinction in Japanese (Mutsumi Imai & Junko Kanero) 3. Grammatical deficits in Japanese children with Specific Language Impairment (Shinji Fukuda, Suzy E. Fukuda, & Tomohiko Ito) 4. Root infinitive analogues in Child Japanese (Keiko Murasugi) 5. Acquisition of scope (Takuya Goro) 6. Narrative development in L1 Japanese (Masahiko Minami) 7. L2 acquisition of Japanese (Yasuhiro Shirai) 8. The modularity of grammar in L2 acquisition (Mineharu Nakayama & Noriko Yoshimura) 9. Tense and aspect in Japanese as a second language (Alison Gabriele & Mamori Sugita Hughes) 10. Language acquisition and brain development: Cortical processing of a foreign language (Hiroko Hagiwara) 11. Resolution of branching ambiguity in speech (Yuki Hirose) 12. The role of learning in theories of English and Japanese sentence processing (Franklin Chang) 13. Experimental syntax: word order in sentence processing (Masatoshi Koizumi) 14. Relative clause processing in Japanese: psycholinguistic investigation into typological differences (Baris Kahraman & Hiromu Sakai) 15. Processing of syntactic and semantic information in the human brain: evidence from ERP studies in Japanese. (Tsutomu Sakamoto) 16. Issues in L2 Japanese sentence processing: similarities/differences with L1 and individual differences in working memory (Koichi Sawasaki & Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood) 17. Sentence production models to consider for L2 Japanese sentence production research (Noriko Iwasaki) 18. Processing of the Japanese language by native Chinese speakers (Katsuo Tamaoka)

Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference

Author :
Publisher : LBASS
ISBN 13 : 0616220030
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference written by and published by LBASS. This book was released on with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Through the Language Glass

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429970111
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.

茶館

Author : 老舍
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629961251
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book 茶館 written by 老舍 and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play portrays the life of the owner of a Beijing teahouse and his customers through 50 years of upheaval in China. Spanning from 1898 to the late 1940s, scenes change from late Qing dynasty to the early days of the Republic, then after to post-1945 when Guomindang soldiers take over the city.

The Field of Chinese Language Education in the U.S.

Author : Vivian Ling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351384996
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Field of Chinese Language Education in the U.S. written by Vivian Ling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be the first account of the development of Chinese as a foreign language in the U.S., as it interacts with the relevant entities in China and beyond. There are virtually no systematic retrospective reflections on the field outside of the greater China region; and yet over the past decades the field has grown by leaps and bounds, and it is critical now that we pause to reflect on what has happened and what we can learn from the past. The contributors are among some of the most influential pioneers in the field whose entire academic lives have been dedicated to its development. The Field of Chinese Language Education in the U.S.: A Retrospective of the 20th Century is aimed at those who are currently engaged in Chinese language education, as teachers or as students.

The Chinese Language

Author : John DeFrancis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824810689
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Language written by John DeFrancis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley

Singular and Different

Author : I. Rae
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230512798
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Singular and Different written by I. Rae and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West cannot afford to ignore China. Not only is China one of the few markets in the world that is still showing healthy signs of growth, but Chinese companies are increasingly coming out into the wider world and competing with Western firms on their own turf. China is the coming economic superpower of the Twenty-first-century, and now is the time to start understanding China and building relationships to it. This book aims to describe some features of the Chinese business environment and culture, including the origins and development of that culture, and introduce Western business people to some of the key features, as well as some of the less obvious ones. It offers cautionary tales and warnings of risk, along with advice on how the latter can be overcome. It breaks down a number of misconceptions about China and offers managers a more realistic view of management in China today.

Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing

Author : Chin-Hui Lee
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812569049
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing written by Chin-Hui Lee and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of research activity, Chinese spoken language processing (CSLP) has advanced considerably both in practical technology and theoretical discovery. In this book, the editors provide both an introduction to the field as well as unique research problems with their solutions in various areas of CSLP. The contributions represent pioneering efforts ranging from CSLP principles to technologies and applications, with each chapter encapsulating a single problem and its solutions.A commemorative volume for the 10th anniversary of the international symposium on CSLP in Singapore, this is a valuable reference for established researchers and an excellent introduction for those interested in the area of CSLP.

Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research

Author : El Shaban, Abir
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799858278
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research written by El Shaban, Abir and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting social science and education research studies that require involvement in fieldwork is not an easy task. Many graduate students and novice researchers face difficulties efficiently and effectively conducting the practical aspects of their research in fieldwork. One reason for this difficulty may be due to the lack of finding and/or accessing authentic and realistic descriptions of previously conducted fieldwork experiences and processes in a variety of fields. This could be the case whether the research is going to be on a virtual platform or in a real and actual context. Thus, it is critical to shed light on the successes and pitfalls of the personal experiences of fieldwork. Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research is an essential reference book that draws on the experience of conducting fieldwork in different contexts and world regions that are relevant to social science and education studies. The diverse experiences in research processes and contexts that this book offers provide readers with an authentic and realistic description of how research data is collected, the tools needed to envision some of the challenges that they might face, and how to effectively solve them. Highlighting topics such as methodology, data collection, and fieldwork partnerships in fields that include counseling, psychology, language studies, and teacher education, this book is ideal for social science and education studies professors who have research as a mandatory part of their curriculum, administrators and policymakers, independent and novice researchers, and graduate students planning to conduct their research studies with humans in different contexts.

Intercultural Communication

Author : James W. Neuliep
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412976898
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Communication written by James W. Neuliep and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully updated Fifth Edition of Intercultural Communication, author James W. Neuliep provides a clear contextual circular model for examining communication within cultural, micro-cultural, environmental, socio-relational, perceptual contexts, and verbal and nonverbal codes. The text begins with the broadest context; the cultural component of the model and progresses chapter by chapter through each component of the model. The later chapters then apply the model to the development and maintenance of intercultural relationships, the management of intercultural conflict, intercultural management, intercultural adaptation, culture shock, and intercultural competence.

Teach Yourself to Read Modern Medical Chinese

Author : Bob Flaws
Publisher : Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780936185996
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Teach Yourself to Read Modern Medical Chinese written by Bob Flaws and published by Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interculturality in Chinese Language Education

Author : Tinghe Jin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583223
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Interculturality in Chinese Language Education written by Tinghe Jin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book calls for a change in the way interculturality is introduced in Chinese language education, while the demand for Chinese language teaching increases around the world. The concept of culture – as in the phrase ‘Chinese culture’ – has often been one of the main emphases of Chinese language education, providing students with facts about China and ‘recipes’ on how to meet Chinese people and how to behave like them. However, Chinese culture, like all cultures, does not constitute a closed system, but is constantly evolving and exchanging with other cultures. This unique volume comprises studies from around the world that promote intercultural awareness, dialogue, and encounters in Chinese language education. Written in a clear and readable style, this book will appeal to a diverse readership, from practising and training teachers of Chinese, to researchers interested in language and intercultural education.

Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language

Author : Jianfen Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000646874
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language written by Jianfen Wang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores best practices in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). Offering a range of chapters that demonstrate how PCA has been successfully applied to curriculum, instructional design, and assessment in CFL programs and classrooms at various levels, this text shows how PCA’s culture-focused paradigm differs fundamentally from the general communicative language teaching (CLT) framework and highlights how it can inspire innovative methods to better support learners’ ability to navigate target culture and overcome communication barriers. Additional applications of PCA in the development of learner identity, intercultural competence, autonomy, and motivation are also considered. Bridging theoretical innovations and the practice of curriculum design and implementation, this work will be of value to researchers, teacher trainers, and graduate students interested in Chinese teaching and learning, especially those with an interest in incorporating performance into foreign language curriculums with the goal of integrating language and culture.