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Kaltenegger, Sandra – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Chinese is a highly complex language with internal variation unprecedented in most other languages. Yet, that does not mean Chinese is unique in the sense that it cannot be compared to other languages and new concepts need to be introduced for the description of it. This paper is dedicated to the question of how to apply the notion of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Sino Tibetan Languages, Contrastive Linguistics
Lin, Chihkai – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The phonological inventory of Old Okinawan is often reconstructed according to modern Ryukyuan languages. Although the importance of historical resources is never ignored in the study of Okinawan historical linguistics, reconstruction based on historical sources is not well investigated yet, due to the two reasons that a) authors of previous…
Descriptors: Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics
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Chen, Matthew Y. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1975
From a survey of over a thousand "diapoints" emerges a clear distributional pattern of nasal vowels in the contemporary dialects of China. They tend to occupy the lower portion of the vowel space. Three hypotheses are proposed to explain this phenomenon and each hypothesis is examined against a broad data base. (Author/TL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Variation
Xueliang, Ma – Chinese Education, 1977
Examines different methods of solving China's minority language problems. Solutions include achieving basic consistency among alphabet forms, and encouraging research and mutal linguistic enrichment. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Education, Educational Development, Foreign Countries