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Qian, Gaoyin; Yang, Ronglan – 1992
A study of Chinese logograph recognition investigated: (1) whether word-length effect is generalizable to Chinese readers in recognizing context-free logographic characters; (2) whether readers from mainland China would outperform readers from Taiwan when each group read its own familiar logograph version; (3) whether both groups would perform…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Hsiao, Yuchau E. – 1991
There are two facets to the lyric rhythm of Taiwanese folk songs: beat alignment and metrical pattern selection. Because the lyrics are metrically derived from classical Chinese verse, a prosodic line may have syllable-beat symmetry. However, syllable-beat mismatches are also common. Lexical syllables have preference over functor syllables in beat…
Descriptors: Chinese, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Folk Culture
Malzahn, Manfred – 1997
A comparison of the linguistic contexts of Scotland and Taiwan focuses on three aspects: (1) existence of two linguistic codes belonging to the same language family; (2) the status of one of those languages as the standard set by a larger, more powerful neighbor from whose perspective any other variety is likely to look like a dialect; and (3) the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, English, Figurative Language
Jannedy, Stefanie, Ed. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
Reports of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics include: "Interaction with Autonomy: Defining Multiple Output Models in Psycholinguistic Theories" (Julie E. Boland, Anne Cutler); "Vocal Tract Evolution and Vowel Production" (K. Bretonnel Cohen); "Final Lowering in Kipare" (Rebecca Herman); "Gestural…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Bantu Languages, Chinese