Investigates how Mandarin speakers negotiate their participatory roles in multiparty conversation by using linguistic and nonlinguistic resources, highlighting two sequential contexts. Examination of recorded conversation reveals that one recurrent linguistic resource in both contexts is a turn-initial discourse-particle plus an additional turn…

Proposes a novel approach to automatically retrieve keywords and then uses genetic algorithms to adapt the keyword weights. Discusses Chinese text retrieval, term frequency rating formulas, vector space models, bigrams, the PAT-tree structure for information retrieval, query vectors, and relevance feedback. (Author/LRW)

Discusses the influence of culture on different immigrant groups' success or failure. Examines the politics of culture, explaining that culture in large must be disaggregated to specific variants characterizing American immigrants, who come from distinct provinces, classes, and subgroups of the large culture. Highlights the experience of Jewish…

Examines the phonological deficit hypothesis in developmental dyslexia with readers in Chinese. Compares 56 Chinese dyslexic children with average readers of the same age in phonological awareness and phonological memory skills. Suggests that Chinese children with dyslexia have deficits in processing phonological information like their alphabetic…

Contributes to both feminist scholarship and Chinese Studies by coming to grips with the deep, culturally embedded, and politically significant meaning of the names given to Chinese women. Uses the analysis of two names to advance theory that will link and enrich rhetorical, feminist, and intercultural studies and break through the limits of…

Analyzes the word order characteristics of "hentai Kambun, the archaic Japanese writing styles employed for recording Japanese in a way that outwardly resembles Chinese. Proposes that hentai kambun word order can receive a systematic account by assuming that Japanese has underlying head-initial word-order, and that it is a representation of this…

Reports on clinical and psychosocial characteristics of 16 Chinese adolescents from Hong Kong with anorexia nervosa. Over 80% of these patients expressed a fear of fatness. Against the background of increasing Westernization of Hong Kong society, anorexia is taking on a Western pattern, in congruence with the notion that anorexia nervosa is a…

Describes methods used to adapt a health care program so that it would better meet the needs of a group of well, older Mandarin-speaking Chinese residents of Los Angeles. Outcomes from a pilot experiment are presented that are consistent with the notion that the adapted program was effective in reducing health-related declines among participants.…

It has been observed that phonological phrasing in Shanghai Chinese distinguishes certain determiners from others and wh-quantifier phrases from non-wh-quantifier phrases. This article shows that such phonological phrasing distinctions are also found in Hokkien Chinese but in a more restricted environment. (Author/VWL)

Provides an overview of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), a workshop series designed to encourage research on text retrieval for realistic applications by providing large test collections and uniform scoring procedures. Highlights include routing tasks; Chinese language retrieval; cross-language information retrieval; filtering; high…

Uses the history of China to present examples of mathematics that can be usefully employed in primary classrooms. Challenges teachers to translate these ideas into practical activities for children. (Author/CCM)

Investigated the use of orthographic and phonologic information in reading Chinese text using an eye-monitoring technique. Results support the position that it is orthography rather than phonology that plays an early and dominant role in reading Chinese. (Author/VWL)

Three primed naming experiments were conducted to investigate development of sublexical processing in reading Chinese. Target characters were either homophonic to or semantically related to phonetic radicals embedded in irregular complex characters, but not to the complex characters themselves. (Author/VWL)

Investigates the value of computer technology as a medium for the delivery of parallel texts in English and Chinese for language learning. A English-Chinese parallel corpus was created for use in parallel concordancing--a technique that has been developed to respond to the desire to study language in its natural contexts of use. (Author/VWL)

Based on a portion of the results of a research project that explores the possibilities of using Mandarin children's literature for cultural understanding between the students of Taiwan and Mainland China, this paper discusses in depth what existing U. S. research may or may not help in constructing Mandarin reading lists and thus provides…