THIS REPORT CONTAINS A PAPER ON RYUKYUAN-JAPANESE LANGUAGE DIVERSITY AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE LANGUAGES OF THE KHAM-THAI FAMILY FOUND IN THAILAND, CAMBODIA, LAOS, VIETNAM, INDIA, AND SOUTHEAST CHINA. (THE REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

Seen as tentative categories, Chinese in America and Chinese Americans, can serve as providing the framework for Chinese people to work together in the quest of Chinese ethnic self-understanding. (Author/EB)

Provides an overview of important social, political, economic, and military events in China during this 150-year period. Identifies five broad eras within the period which teachers should highlight in their classes. (JDH)

Provides a checklist which will help teachers guard against common pitfalls present in low-quality and outdated materials used to teach about post-1949 China. (JDH)

The difficulty and the beauty of Chinese lies in the simultaneous concreteness and ambiguity of each graph. (Author)

A significant relationship exists between students' attitudes toward teaching and their performance during training. (CK)

Syntactic priming of Chinese nouns and verbs was investigated in word recognition and production. Disyllabic compound words were presented after syntactically congruent, incongruent, or neutral auditory contexts, with a zero delay between offset of the context and onset of the target. Significant priming was observed in both tasks, including…

Analysis of six cross-linguistic properties characterizing the head verb in the resultative construction in Chinese shows that the first verb, and not the second verb, should be analyzed as the head verb. (15 references) (Author/CB)

Discussion of Chinese information retrieval proposes a relaxed segmentation process which extracts the longest words and also the short words implied. Experiments show that information retrieval based on this segmentation gives a slightly higher effectiveness than n-grams or bigrams, and requires less time and space for document and query…

Argues that the syllable has rich internal structure that may vary from language to language. Crucial evidence comes from phonological processes, such as partial reduplication, that target sub-strings of the syllable. In the case of Fuzhou, careful analysis of sub-syllabic processes provides a convincing argument for a highly articulated structure…

Distinguishes two types of language, V-to-I type versus V-to-V type, with a view to deriving two distinct patterns of associating specific interpretations with subject positions. (Author/VWL)

Describes the development of new statistical formulas for identifying two- and three-character words in Chinese text by performing stepwise logistic regression using a sample of sentences that had been manually segmented. Concludes that the new contextual information formulas are substantially better than the mutual information formula.…

Provides a complex analysis of the semiotic relationship between a word and the potential meaning that a word carries. Discusses Chinese words as a form, creating and carrying a venue for broad philosophical interpretation. (Author/VWL)