Cantonese-English
A Tale of Two Features: Perception of Cantonese Lexical Tone and English Lexical Stress in Cantonese-English Bilinguals
... in Cantonese and the use of lexical stress in English to differentiate one word from another [ 4 ...]. Cantonese lexical tones are pitch patterns used to minimally distinguish word meanings [ 5 ...in ...
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A Structural-Based Approach to Cantonese-English Machine Translation
... the Cantonese-English domain is quite a difficulty ...a Cantonese segmentation algorithm, similarity calculation algorithm, and a target sentence construction ...many Cantonese words and ...
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Intonation of statements and question in Cantonese English: acoustic evidence from a smoothing spline analysis of variance
... 3. TONES IN CONTEXT-NEUTRAL AND CONTEXTUAL UTTERANCES This section compares the SS ANOVA plots of the same tone in two types of utterance: context-neutral and contextual (statement and question) in order to see whether ...
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Better than native: Tone language experience enhances English lexical stress discrimination in Cantonese-English bilingual listeners
... that Cantonese-English bilinguals were superior in discriminating English lexical stress than native English listeners, even though lexical stress is not used in ...
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Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution of Cantonese English Bilinguals: Evidence from Prepositional Phrase and Adverb
... Syntactic ambiguity resolution is influenced by multiple constraints. A sen- tence-picture matching task tested the attachment of prepositional phrase (PP) such as on the chair within an utterance like Mary ate the apple ...
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The role of prosodic reading in English reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children
... characterize Cantonese-English bilingual children’s English prosodic production, acoustic analysis of recordings obtained from each participant was conducted using Praat ...in English- ...
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Perception of linguistic pitch in Cantonese-English bilingual speakers
... in Cantonese-English bilingual ...sessions: Cantonese lexical tone perception test, English lexical stress perception test, the mixed mode test of lexical tone and lexical ...
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Automatic Recognition of Cantonese-English Code-Mixing Speech
... for Cantonese-English code-mixing speech. Cantonese is a spoken dialect; many colloquial Cantonese words do not have a standard written ...written Cantonese is neither taught in schools ...
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Musical intervals of tones in Cantonese English
... in Cantonese English, also in comparison with Cantonese, this paper supports the view that Cantonese English is an emerging tone ...
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Comparing native and non-native speech rhythm using acoustic rhythmic measures: Cantonese, Beijing Mandarin and English
... Both Cantonese English and Mandarin English have higher ΔS and rPVI_S values than English and ...nPVI_S, Cantonese English and Mandarin English fall between English ...
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Toward a Parallel Corpus of Spoken Cantonese and Written Chinese
... its Cantonese equivalent gung follows the animal, as in 鷄公 gai gung ...in Cantonese it may be placed between as an ...in Cantonese verbs of giving, ...contemporary Cantonese spo- ken in Hong ...
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Speech intelligibility of Cantonese-speaking children with cochlear implants
... With younger age of implantation, extensive training and advanced technology, it was highly possible that speech intelligibility of cochlear implant users had improved in great extent, or even be comparable to that of ...
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Effect of speech rate on pre-low raising in Cantonese
... that Cantonese is undergoing tone-merger [11], and that some native speakers are becoming less able to perceive the difference between certain similar tones; the magnitude of PLR can help distinguish between, for ...
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Development of tonal discrimination in young heritage speakers of Cantonese
... how Cantonese tones continue to develop in later childhood, and to be able to examine how well PAM-S and LILt apply to developing ...mainly Cantonese environment to receiving large amounts of English ...
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Cantonese Prosody: Sentence-final Particles and Prosodic Focus
... Kong Cantonese is impoverished despite its having a rich inventory of ...Kong Cantonese does have other forms of tone changes, and the two notable ones are the diminutive tone change (Tan, 2011) and tone ...
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Languagehood of Cantonese: A Renewed Front in an Old Debate
... and English in ...in Cantonese allow people to think of this diglossia as more like style ...shifting. Cantonese is still consi- dered a spoken variety, or haujyu (Mandarin: kouyu) “spoken language,” ...
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Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin
... The problem caused by syntactic difference can be tackled with linguistic rules, for example, the rules below can be used for Cantonese-Mandarin MT of the previous example sentences: Rul[r] ...
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A Comparative Study on Mandarin and Cantonese Resultative Verb Compounds
... In (16), (a) and (c) are Mandarin examples whereas (b) and (d) are Cantonese. As we can see in (a) and (c), the only difference between accusatives and causatives in Mandarin is the word order of the sentences. ...
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A Study of Evidential Particles in Cantonese: the case of wo3 & wo5
... modern Cantonese, the main features of mirative wo3 are realization and reminding, and further diachronic studies are needed before which of the above situations it belongs can be decided ...
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INTONATION OF CANTONESE INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES WITH AND WITHOUT SENTENCE FINAL PARTICLE
... Sentences composed of syllables of the same lexical tone category are constructed as target sentences. For interrogative sentences without SFPs, the target sentences are embedded in the context so that the target ...
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