Phonological Identity of the Neutral-tone Syllables in Taiwan Mandarin: An Acoustic Study by Karen HUANG

“… Taiwan Mandarin, one of the more syllable-timed dialects of Mandarin, has fewer unstressed syllables than Standard Mandarin. Acoustic analyses show that the supposedly unstressed syllables—neutral-tone syllables—in Taiwan Mandarin behave differently from those of Standard Mandarin. …”
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Investigating the tonal system of Plastic Mandarin: a cross-varietal comparison by Xu, C

“…It is defined in this thesis as a non-standard Mandarin accent that features the speech of young urban residents in Changsha and that has crystallised over the past few decades.…”

Analysis of Mandarin Monophthong Production by Intermediate-Level Learners by Arkin Gulnur, Wu Shengyi

“…The research investigates the formant resonance patterns and acoustic vowel charts of Mandarin pronunciation by intermediate-level learners, calculating the Euclidean distance and vowel duration parameters in both standard and non-standard Mandarin for each vowel. The trajectory and pronunciation morphology of the learners acquiring Mandarin monophthongs were thus derived. …”
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Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview by Giorgio Francesco Arcodia

“…In this paper, we offer a critical analysis of the proposals made in the description of Standard Mandarin Chinese and (so-called) Chinese dialects concerning grammatical exponents of tense. …”
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On Structural Particles in Sinitic Languages: Typology and Diachrony by Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco

“… In the Chinese linguistic tradition, the term ‘structural particle(s)’ (jiégòu zhùcí 结构助词) is used to refer to functional elements that mainly act as markers of adnominal modification, nominalisation, adverbial modification and in the so-called verb complement constructions. In Standard Mandarin, the three commonly used structural particles are all realised as /tə/, but they are written with different characters (的, 地 and 得), which somehow reflect their distinct origins. …”
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Designing between pedagogies and cultures: Audio-visual Chinese language resources for Australian schools by Yifeng Yuan, Huizhong Shen

“…All audio recordings should be spoken by Chinese native speakers, who are fluent in standard Mandarin. Additionally, it is suggested that an interactive learning platform could effectively enhance peer learning.…”
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Literary and Colloquial Pronunciations of the Peking Mandarin Noted by Joseph Edkins in Romanized Chinese Book by Wong , Ling Yann

“…The characteristics of the pronunciations which reflected in the “Lessons”（《課文》）and the“List of Common Words and Phrases”（《編目表》）in this book have shown differentiated, the former refered to the classical rhyming book namely as Wufang Yuanyin （《五方元音》）to form the literary pronunciation of Mandarin, Joseph Edkins believed that this sound system which has been noted in this rhyming book is used to form the literary pronunciation of the Peking Mandarin, and it is the standard Mandarin Orthography；however the latter reflected the colloquial pronunciation of the Peking Mandarin which spoken by the local people, this actual sound is originated from the Peking dialect. …”
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Bidialectal variety switching: the effects of language use and social contexts by Wenqi Zeng, Christine Shea, Christine Shea, Jill Beckman, Ethan Kutlu, Ethan Kutlu

“…Both groups speak a regional dialect (Chengdu Mandarin or Cantonese) as their native language and are also highly proficient in Standard Mandarin. Participants' language background and linguistic experience are collected by a language background questionnaire. …”
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