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Direct linkFon, Janice; Johnson, Keith – Language and Speech, 2004
This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervals, Syllables, Foreign Countries
Download full textErbaugh, Mary – 1980
Child acquisition of Mandarin was studied with four middle class families from Taipei, Taiwan. The 2-year-olds were taped at home playing with their families. Two of the children were taped for short periods (7 hours and 9 hours), while the other two children were studied biweekly for 14 months, which resulted in 71 hours of transcribed child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Research
