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Ma, Lixia. "Acquisition of the perfective aspect marker "le" of Mandarin Chinese in discourse by American college learners." Diss., University of Iowa, 2006. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/68.

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Bridges, Susan Margaret, and n/a. "English Language Immersion: Theorising from Stakeholders' Accounts." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060322.144245.

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This research is a case study of stakeholders' perceptions of learning and provision during a specific English language program. The pedagogical context of the program was clearly defined. English teachers from Hong Kong who had either Cantonese or Mandarin as their first language (L1) came to Australia for intensive language proficiency training and assessment. The Hong Kong government determined the program's syllabus, including assessment instruments and criteria in the Syllabus Specifications for the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers (English Language) (LPATE) (Government of the

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Bridges, Susan Margaret. "English Language Immersion: Theorising from Stakeholders' Accounts." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365381.

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This research is a case study of stakeholders' perceptions of learning and provision during a specific English language program. The pedagogical context of the program was clearly defined. English teachers from Hong Kong who had either Cantonese or Mandarin as their first language (L1) came to Australia for intensive language proficiency training and assessment. The Hong Kong government determined the program's syllabus, including assessment instruments and criteria in the Syllabus Specifications for the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers (English Language) (LPATE) (Government of the

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Liu, Huei-Mei. "The acoustic-phonetic characteristics of infant-directed speech in Mandarin Chinese and their relation to infant speech perception in the first year of life /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8253.

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Yang, Bei. "A model of Mandarin tone categories--a study of perception and production." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/764.

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The current study lays the groundwork for a model of Mandarin tones based on both native speakers' and non-native speakers' perception and production. It demonstrates that there is variability in non-native speakers' tone productions and that there are differences in the perceptual boundaries in native speakers and non-native speakers. There are four experiments in this study. Experiment 1 utilizes native speakers' production data from a published speech database to explore the features of tone production by native speakers. Inter-speaker normalization is used to analyze the data. Experiment 2

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Lu, Chien-hui Rose, and 呂建慧. "First Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Conditionals." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72937586861695266748.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>100<br>In first language acquisition, conditionals are regarded as one of the most complicated syntactic constructions, enjoying extensive discussion in the literature. However, few researchers have conducted an empirical study to investigate the competence and performance of Chinese children’s acquisition of conditional sentences. Therefore, the present study aims to probe into Chinese children’s development by investigating the markednesss issues, scenario differences, task effects, production analysis and age effects on the five types of conditionals. A comprehensi

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Chiang, Kuan-Hsien, and 江冠嫻. "Children’s First Language Acquisition of Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33eew6.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>107<br>The present study aims at investigating Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of classifiers. Two experiments were designed to elicit the subjects’ comprehension and production: a picture-pointing task and a picture--description task. The issues addressed in the present study included children’s difficulty in acquiring count-noun and noncount-noun classifiers, individual and group classifiers, and shape classifiers, as well as age effect. Forty-eight children participated in the present study, and they were further divided into three age groups: Group 1 (fiv

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Li, Wei-shan, and 李瑋珊. "The First Language Influence on the Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7xzvm5.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>96<br>The resultative verb compounds (hereafter RVC) in Chinese consist of two verbal elements, with the second element signifying the result of the action/state denoted by the first (Li and Thompson 1981). Smith (1997) hence suggests that RVCs are like English Accomplishments. However, there are some cross-linguistic variations between RVCs and Accomplishments, though the two verbs have the action-result semantic relation between their semantic components. Tai (1984), for example, indicates that the Mandarin RVC encodes only the aspectual meaning of the result; thus,

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Chang-Smith, Meiyun. "First language acqusition of functional categories in Mandarin nominal expressions: a longitudinal study of two Mandarin speaking children." Phd thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10143.

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In the present study, I adopt theoretical aspects from the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995), namely the theory of Economy, Merge Operation and Feature Checking, to account for the acquisition of functional categories in early child grammar. I focus on the acquisition of functional categories associated with Mandarin nominal expressions, namely Determiner Phrase (DP), Number Phrase (NumbP) and Classifier Phrase (ClP), by carrying out longitudinal studies of two Mandarin speaking children, one monolingual and the other bilingual. Based on the data from two corpora (starting from the onset of

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LIN, YUN-WEN, and 林允文. "First Language Effects on the Production of the Syllable-final Nasals in Taiwan Mandarin." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58ctf5.

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碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>跨文化研究所語言學碩士班<br>103<br>The phenomenon that Mandarin [-iŋ] being often replaced in Taiwan Mandarin by [-in] was observed by Kubler (1986) first. This study aims to observe whether the production of two nasal codas, [n] and [ŋ] in Taiwan Mandarin is associated with the language background of Hakka, Southern Min and Mandarin. A word list reading was conducted focusing on the nasal coda /n/ and /ŋ/ preceded by the vowels, /i/, / ə / and /a/. Forty-five subjects participated in the experiment, with each language groups recruiting 15 natives. The spectral analysis of digital audio reco

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Huang, Yu-Wen, and 黃郁紋. "Content Analysis of Family Concepts in Mandarin Language Textbooks of First Grade in Elementary Schools." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62103227597998771982.

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碩士<br>國立屏東師範學院<br>國民教育研究所<br>91<br>The primary purpose of this thesis is not only to investigate the appearances of contexts and contents of family concepts in different editions of Mandarin language textbooks of first grade in elementary schools, but also to discuss elementary school teachers’ opinions about contents of family concepts. So that the findings of the study can be provided as references for Mandarin language curriculum development and new editions in the future. The methods adapted by this research are document analysis, content analysis, and interviews. Specifically,

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Pytlyk, Carolyn. "Expanding the scope of orthographic effects: evidence from phoneme counting in first, second, and unfamiliar languages." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4398.

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This research expands our understanding of the relationship between orthographic knowledge and phoneme perception by investigating how orthographic knowledge affects phoneme perception not only in the first language (L1) but also in the second language (L2), and an unfamiliar language (L0). Specifically, this research sought not only to confirm that L1 orthographic knowledge influences L1 phoneme perception, but also to determine if L1 orthographic knowledge influences L2 and L0 phoneme perception, particularly as it relates to native English speakers. Via a phoneme counting task, 52 particip

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呂淑琴. "A Study of Oral Language Syntax Competence in First-Grade Normal Children And Children with Mandarin Learning Disabilities." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78025273415012029089.

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碩士<br>臺北市立教育大學<br>身心障礙教育研究所<br>95<br>The Purpose of this study was to explore the composition in first-grade elementary children with normal children and mandarin learning disabilities. 30 first-grade elementary children (15 normal children, 15 children with mandarin learning disabilities) were measured by means of Oral Language Syntax Ability Diagnostic Test for preschool and lower grade children. The research data were analysed in terms of language syntax ability and error patterns. The major results were summarized as follow: 1. Normal children were higher than children with mandarin le

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SHU-CHIN, LU, and 呂淑琴. "A Study of Oral Language Syntax Competence in First-Grade Normal Children And Children with Mandarin Learning Disabilities." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21909834010946564836.

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碩士<br>臺北市立教育大學<br>特殊教育學系碩士班<br>96<br>A Study of Oral Language Syntax Competence in Normal Children And Children with Mandarin Learning Disabilities Abstract The Purpose of this study was to explore the composition in first-grade elementary children with normal children and mandarin learning disabilities. 30 first-grade elementary children (15 normal children, 15 children with mandarin learning disabilities) were measured by means of Oral Language Syntax Ability Diagnostic Test for preschool and lower grade children. The research data were analysed in terms of language syntax ability and error

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Ting, Kuo-Yun, and 丁國雲. "An intralingual and interlingual contrastive analysis of Mandarin near synonyms renshi and zhidao—First language transfer in Thai and Japanese intermediate and advanced learners of Mandarin." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36gzsg.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>華語文教學研究所<br>97<br>This study uses the theory of interlanguage (IL) to examine the effects of first language transfer on the acquisition of the Mandarin near synonyms renshi and zhidao. The results of this study may be applied to teaching Chinese as a second language, reducing the difficulties students encounter when learning and using near synonyms. The methodology comprises questionnaires supplemented by interviews. Contrastive analysis is performed with data gathered from 120 study subjects divided into four groups of foreign students: 30 intermediate-level native Thai spea

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Jiang, Yih-Lin. "Social and cultural capital across contexts : Mandarin-speaking English language learning children's first and second language literacy learning at home, in the community, and in multiple classrooms /." 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3362929.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: . Adviser: Arlette I. Willis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-185) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

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Chen, Yi-Wen, and 陳宜雯. "Analytic Research on Writing Textbooks and Writing Ability Indicator at the First Learning Stage of Mandarin Language Textbooks of the 1st-9th Grades Curriculum." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24267162182833379394.

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碩士<br>國立屏東師範學院<br>語文教育學系碩士班<br>93<br>This research is based on 1st-9th Grade Curriculum of Junior High and Elementary Schools, which was declared by Ministry of Education on 2003, and examines the qualified textbook as the research object through Ministry of Education on 2003 semester. Using content analysis to analyze the situation about the writing ability indicator of the first learning stage in every version, and the situation teachers were offered the relative teaching methods; students were offered exercise materials. In the hoping of understanding weather Mandarin language textbooks now

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Wang, Yuhua (Educator). "A comparative study of the provision of Mandarin as foreign language in higher education in China and South Africa." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13378.

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The importance of China as world power has led to a growing interest in and demand for learning Mandarin as a Foreign Language (MFL) worldwide. This study focuses on a comparative study of the provision of MFL in higher education in China and in South Africa. A conceptual framework was provided by examining theories of language policy planning and second language or foreign language acquisition as well as an overview of MFL provision in Chinese and South African higher education. MFL policy in China is characterised as a diffusion policy driven by economic globalisation, „soft power‟ and cultu

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Yang, Yu-Ching, and 楊育菁. "A Firest Study on Mandarin Word-class Bigram Language Model." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67953155051135893818.

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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>電信工程研究所<br>86<br>In this thesis, a word-class bigram of Chinese is discussed for speech-to-text conversion . An algorithm is first proposed to partition all words of a large lexicon containing 111246 word entries into several hundreds of word classes. It considers many linguists features of word inchuding part-of-speech, prefix, suffix, and length to make words with same characteristics being clustered together. Then a word-class bigram model is constructed using a text-corpus containing 9 million wors.Performance of the proposed word-class bigram model was examined by simula

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