A study investigated how balanced and pseudo-bilingual students, all second-generation Chinese-Americans, develop and maintain their native language while learning English. Subjects were 12 fifth-graders attending a Saturday Chinese language school, six of whom (3 boys, 3 girls) were balanced bilinguals and six of whom (3 boys, 3 girls) were…

Discusses four fields of education in Chinese culture during the time of Confucius: (1) morals, (2) law, (3) politics, and (4) music. Identifies three traditional Chinese music types: (1) refined, (2) popular, and (3) foreign. States music was used to promote social harmony, reinforce nationalist views and actions, and shape attitudes and beliefs…

Highlights particular assumptions and biases that underlie Western approaches to counseling and offers guidelines to revising these assumptions in counseling Chinese clients. Differences in communication styles, interdependence, family relations, and community are related to varied expressions of presenting symptomatology and to communication…

Reviews the research comparing the social and behavioral characteristics of only children and children with siblings in China. Results are mixed, and many of the studies are seen as having methodological flaws. (BB)

The effects of income, language, and citizenship on the use of health-care services by Chinese Americans is examined (N=1808). Focus groups, a telephone survey, and key informant interviews were conducted. Data analysis included an acculturation index, demographic profile, and logistical regression. Health insurance and social factors are…

Two hundred and four 5- and 6-year-olds who were monolingual English-, bilingual English-Chinese-, or Chinese-speaking children beginning to learn English (2nd-language learners) were compared on phonological awareness and word decoding tasks in English and Chinese. Phonological awareness developed in response to language exposure and instruction…

An inquiry into the internal structure of infl has led to the view in the generative grammar that universally the head of the I(nfl)P(hrase) is decompositional in that a series of functional categories can be located there, e.g. T(ense)P(hrase), Agr(eement)P(hrase), Neg(ation)P(hrase), Asp(ect)P(hrase), etc.; each of these categories projects its…

Discusses the cultural features of "Spring" and "Autumn" in Chinese. Their meanings range from references to happiness and love to seasons, crops and farming, to the representation of a year's time and one's age. They are used in poetry and as noun compounds for titles of history books. (SC)

John Thomson was a nineteenth-century British photojournalist who used the wet-plate process to illustrate his explorations of eastern and Southeast Asia. His travels from 1862 to 1872 took him to the following places, among others: Ceylon, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Saigon, Siam, mainland China, and Taiwan. Thomson chose to use the wet-plate…

A survey of common daily expressions in use in the People's Republic of China (PRC) was conducted during the summer of 1979. It was considered a preliminary attempt towards solving the problem of inadequate teaching material for the study of Chinese. A questionnaire was developed and administered to more than 200 individuals. One hundred…

This book, compiled by six practicing teachers of Chinese, is designed to provide supplementary work for regular textbooks such as "Speak Chinese,""Speak Mandarin," and "Modern Chinese," and hopefully to help the teacher to avoid the monotony and boredom of much drill practice by providing a greater variety of material for drill purposes. It…

This paper describes work that has been completed to date on a course in Cantonese for students who already have some knowledge of Mandarin. Among the topics discussed are the principles on which the course is to be based, the method of data collections, and the organization of the materials that have been so far produced. Specimens of the latter…

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF MANDARIN CHINESE GRAMMAR HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVELY EXPLORED WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR IN THE PROJECT ON LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. THE PROBLEMS STUDIED INCLUDE SUCH GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES AS ASPECT MARKERS, ADJECTIVES, EXISTENTIAL AND POSSESSIVE VERBS, INDEFINITE PRONOUNS, AND…

Presents a preliminary study on the analysis of cleft sentences in Chinese, defining the cleft sentence in Chinese, clarifying its relationship to equation sentences, and discussing two alternative analyses. (Author/AM)

The speech of two male Taiwanese speakers was analyzed to determine whether fundamental frequency (Fo) is correlated with both duration and intensity; five conclusions are drawn. The results are discussed in terms of theories of pitch production and speed of pitch change. (EJS)