PressToPronounce : an output-oriented approach to mobile language learning by Liao, Kaiying

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Combining linguistics and statistics for high-quality limited domain English-Chinese machine translation by Xu, Yushi, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Generalized inversion and theory of agree by Wu, Hsiao-hung Iris

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An HPSG-based Shared-Grammar for the Chinese Languages: ZHONG [|] by Fan, Zhenzhen, Song, Sanghoun, Bond, Francis

“…Chinese refers to a family of various languages including Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Min, etc. These languages share a large amount of structure , though they may differ in orthogra-phy, lexicon, and syntax. …”
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The efficacy of a teacher-led vocabulary intervention for third graders in rural china: using lexical compounding awareness to support vocabulary depth by Guo, N

“…The study’s purpose was to investigate a Mandarin Chinese vocabulary intervention that trained lexical compounding awareness in third-graders to explore if targeted lexical compounding awareness training can improve vocabulary depth. …”

Translating Kōminka: shaping narratives of Japanese rule in Taiwan through translation post-1975 by Cantrill, A

“…It focuses on the translation into Mandarin Chinese of Japanese-language texts written by Taiwanese women between 1934 and 1943, drawing on a corpus of short stories and literary essays with themes ranging from infertility and free love to the choice between a life of work and life as a housewife. …”

Examining linguistic landscape through shop signs: drawing insights about language identity in Tamparuli Town by Daron Benjamin Loo

“…There were also signs multilingual signs, where a combination of all or either English, BM or Mandarin Chinese was used. While English seemed to be a dominant language used in the signs, it does not signify the pervasive use of the language within the town community; instead, what is observed is the borrowing of lexical items. …”
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Language-specific distributional learning advantages in Singapore English-Mandarin bilingual adults by Goh, Hannah Letitia

“…Based on the language-specific hypothesis of bilingual learning advantages, we reasoned that individual variance in Mandarin proficiency would act as a predictive factor in determining individual differences in learning effects following bimodal distributional training on stimuli that share featural similarities with Mandarin Chinese. In essence, individuals with higher understanding abilities in Mandarin Chinese would demonstrate stronger learning effects for novel language stimuli that share phonemic features with Mandarin. …”
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Processing Gapped and Gapless Relative Clauses in Mandarin: Evidence from Event–Related Brain Potentials by Zhiying Qian, Jerome Packard

“…This paper reports an event–related potential (ERP) study examining the processing of “gapless” relative clauses (RCs), normal (“gapped”) RCs, attributive clauses, Subject–Verb–Object (SVO) forms and the morphological markers <i>de</i> and <i>le</i> in Mandarin Chinese. The objectives were to (1) determine whether a processing cost signature can be identified for gap–filler processing by comparing gapped RCs with SVO forms; and (2) determine whether processing gapless RCs is more similar to processing gapped RCs that they resemble on surface or attributive clauses that they resemble structurally by comparing gapped RCs, gapless RCs, and attributive clauses. …”
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How semantics works in Chinese relative clause processing: insights from eye tracking by Yan Liu, Chuanbin Ni

“…This study, in an eye-tracking paradigm, took 38 native speakers of Mandarin Chinese as the participants and took Chinese relative clauses as stimuli to figure out the functions of semantics by investigating the conditioning semantic factors influencing and governing the word order variation of Chinese relative clauses during different processing stages. …”
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Headedness and the Lexicon: The Case of Verb-to-Noun Ratios by Maria Polinsky, Lilla Magyar

“…SVO languages that have strong head-final traits (e.g., Mandarin Chinese) pattern with head-final languages, and a small subset of SVO languages are genuinely in the middle (e.g., English, Russian). …”
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Assessing Patients’ Critical Health Literacy and Identifying Associated Factors: Cross-sectional Study by Yi Shan, Meng Ji, Zhaogang Dong, Zhaoquan Xing, Xiaofei Xu

“…We first designed a 4-section survey questionnaire and then recruited Mandarin Chinese–speaking patients from Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, China, using randomized sampling. …”
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Analysis of factors related to chronic cough after lung cancer surgery by Ming‐ran Xie, Yong‐fu Zhu, Mei‐qi Zhou, Sheng‐bing Wu, Guang‐wen Xu, Shi‐bin Xu, Mei‐qing Xu

“…Methods We retrospectively evaluated 171 patients with NSCLC who received lobectomy at our center between September 2017 and February 2018. The Mandarin Chinese version of the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ‐MC) was used to evaluate the degree of cough in patients. …”
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Aspectuo-Temporal Underspecification in Anindilyakwa: Descriptive, Theoretical, Typological and Quantitative Issues by Patrick Caudal, James Bednall

“…Rather, we show that Anindilyakwa seems to come closest to languages possessing zero tensed-verbs (or tenseless verbs) where boundedness monotonically enforces a past temporal anchoring, such as Navajo and Mandarin Chinese. We also show that aspect-independent temporal information appears to determine the temporal anchoring of all zero tense-marked unbounded atelic utterances (both stative and dynamic) in Anindilyakwa—a fact at once conflicting with some claims made in previous works on zero tenses, while confirming results from past studies of Indigenous languages of the Americas (especially Yucatec Maya), concerning the role of temporal anaphora in the temporal interpretation of ‘tenseless’ verb forms.…”
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Effects of Within-Talker Variability on Speech Intelligibility in Mandarin-Speaking Adult and Pediatric Cochlear Implant Patients by Qiaotong Su, John J. Galvin, Guoping Zhang, Yongxin Li, Qian-Jie Fu

“…The coarse spectral resolution afforded by the CI limits perception of voice pitch, which is an important cue for speech prosody and for tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese. In this study, sentence recognition from the Mandarin speech perception database was measured in adult and pediatric Mandarin-speaking CI listeners for a variety of speaking styles: voiced speech produced at slow, normal, and fast speaking rates; whispered speech; voiced emotional speech; and voiced shouted speech. …”
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Translation and validation of the Chinese version of the menstrual distress questionnaire by Hsin-Huei Chang, Ya-Chien Hsu, Wen-Ling Liao, Chyi Lo, Cherry Yin-Yi Chang, Chun-Hui Liao, Shan-Yu Su

“…ICC for test-retest reliability was .852 for the entire MDQCC.Conclusion MDQCC was valid and reliable for Mandarin Chinese-speaking women. It can be used to evaluate female psychiatric symptoms related to the menstrual cycle in future work.…”
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Preoperative fractional exhaled nitric oxide is a risk and predictive factor of postoperative cough for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients: a longitudinal study by Rongjia Lin, Genmiao Yu, Xiuhua Tu

“…Abstract Background To determine whether preoperative fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) level is a risk and predictive factor of postoperative cough by using the Leicester Cough Questionnaire in Mandarin-Chinese (LCQ-MC). Methods 292 early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients without preoperative cough were enrolled. 138 patients (47.2%) developed postoperative cough, univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to identify the independent risk factors of postoperative cough. …”
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Reference production in Mandarin–English bilingual preschoolers: Linguistic, input, and cognitive factors by Jiangling Zhou, Ziyin Mai, Qiuyun Cai, Yuqing Liang, Virginia Yip

“…Using two stories in the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), we examined character introduction and re-introduction in oral narratives of 4–6-year-old Singaporean bilingual children acquiring Mandarin Chinese and English (n = 21), and in child-directed speech of the mothers (n = 17). …”
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Relationship Between the Ability to Detect Frequency Changes or Temporal Gaps and Speech Perception Performance in Post-lingual Cochlear Implant Users by Dianzhao Xie, Jianfen Luo, Xiuhua Chao, Jinming Li, Xianqi Liu, Zhaomin Fan, Haibo Wang, Lei Xu

“…Thirty-one adult post-lingual CI users of Mandarin Chinese were enrolled in the study. The stimuli used to induce ACCs to frequency changes were 800-ms pure tones (fundamental frequency was 1,000 Hz); the frequency change occurred at the midpoint of the tones, with six percentages of frequency changes (0, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50%). …”
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Immersive Virtual Reality as an Effective Tool for Second Language Vocabulary Learning by Jennifer Legault, Jiayan Zhao, Ying-An Chi, Weitao Chen, Alexander Klippel, Ping Li

“…Using a mixed counterbalanced design, the current study examines individual differences in L2 performance during learning of 60 Mandarin Chinese words across two learning sessions, with each participant learning 30 words in iVR and 30 words via word&#8315;word (WW) paired association. …”
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