James 鍾傑穆钟杰穆 Jones

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Seems to be a useful article for learners of Mandarin. The use of the 'dialect' word in the popular article is not precise, though typical, correct?

Dialect in the context of Chinese is simple: there is no such thing as a Chinese dialect. there are Mandarin Chinese dialects, there are Cantonese Chinese dialects, there are Wu Chinese...

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What is the distribution of Mandarin tone?

Are there studies that identify the possible probabilistic and statistic distributions of Mandarin tones [either in general or in specific corpora]? I have developed some very general data eg Tone...

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How can we measure the phenomenon of information load and tonality in Mandarin and English?

A sentence of a tonal language presents critical lexical information in the tones whereas a nontonal language such as English does not. What might be a way of developing useful statistics that...

01 January 2016 2,782 3 View

Is there a dataset that describes all of the observed, possible, and preferred standard tonal variations in Mandarin measure words?

Some measure words can be pronounced in more than one way but others are only supposed to be pronounced a single way. Take the most common one 'ge.' Ge can be pronounced ge0, ge1, or ge4 in...

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Mandarin tone sandhi; There is more than one type I know but is there anything recent that is new?

There exists more than one type of Mandarin tone sandhi. The most basic is the Tone 3 possibly changing to Tone 2 under certain conditions. Also, there is the half tone phenomenon. Is there some...

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On Mandarin; how is Mandarin tone distributed?

Have asked in Statistical Area. Am interested in identifying probabilistic and statistic distributions of Mandarin tones [either in general or in specific corpora]. I have developed some very...

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How would I apply? There are several concerns of mine: 1, Can I work remotely? ; 2, only have a BA and an MA in Linguistics ok?

Research Fellow position; the application link led back here. ...address the mystery of how children learn to speak. We will test the hypothesis that children learn by using their own...

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