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Journal articles on the topic "Mandarin particles"

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Liu, Mingming. "Varieties of alternatives: Mandarin focus particles." Linguistics and Philosophy 40, no. 1 (December 24, 2016): 61–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9199-y.

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Li, Bin. "Prosodic features of Mandarin utterance final particles." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, no. 5 (May 2007): 3202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4782474.

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Hasanah, Hana Nurul. "Partikel Fatis Bahasa Mandarin dalam Drama Televisi: Kajian Awal terhadap Partikel Le." Paradigma, Jurnal Kajian Budaya 2, no. 2 (February 15, 2016): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/paradigma.v2i2.26.

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<p>One of the characteristics of non-standard language varieties is employing phatic particles in the beginning of the sentence, in the middle or in the end of it. In Mandarin language, one phatic particle that is commonly used by Mandarin speakers is le particle. This research generally aimed at describing the functions of phatic particle le found in television drama series. The series from which the data were gathered is Zan Jia Na Xie Shir, the first part from the first episode. From 78 phatic particles found in the drama series, of which 47 of them are le as phatic particle; 10 of them are distributed in the middle of the sentence and 37 of them are distributed in the end of the sentence. Based on the result, the function of “le” in the middle of the sentence is starting a new talk and maintaining a talk. Meanwhile, the function of “le” in the end of the sentence is maintaining a talk and ending a talk. Therefore, it seemed that the function of le as phatic particle tend to not inline with its distribution in the sentence.</p>
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Yueh-chin, Chang. "Les indices acoustiques et perceptifs des questions totales en mandarin parlé de Taïwan." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 27, no. 1 (December 15, 1998): 51–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028_027_01-03.

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This study confirms previous acoustic findings that yes-no questions and declarative questions have a higher register than declarative sentences. However, our perception tests show that in the formation of Mandarin questions intonation is not as important as in French. For yes-no questions with question particles, the question particles play the main role. The subjects perceived the yes-no questions without particles and the declarative questions as showing surprise on the part of the speaker, or as surprised questions. The study suggests that in Mandarin, question intonation and surprise intonation are one and the same.
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Hao, Yuxin, Xun Duan, and Qiuyue Yan. "Processing Aspectual Agreement in a Language with Limited Morphological Inflection by Second Language Learners: An ERP Study of Mandarin Chinese." Brain Sciences 12, no. 5 (April 21, 2022): 524. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050524.

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Previous studies on the neural cognitive mechanisms of aspectual processing in second language (L2) learners have focused on Indo-European languages with rich inflectional morphology. These languages have aspects which are equipped with inflected verb forms combined with auxiliary or modal verbs. Meanwhile, little attention has been paid to Mandarin Chinese, which has limited morphological inflection, and its aspect is equipped with aspectual particles (e.g., le, zhe, guo). The present study explores the neurocognitive mechanism of Mandarin Chinese aspect processing among two groups of late Mandarin Chinese proficient learners with Thai (with Mandarin Chinese-like aspect markers) and Indonesian (lack of Mandarin Chinese-like aspect markers) as their first language (L1). We measured event-related potentials (ERPs) time locked to the aspect marker le in two different conditions (the aspect violation sentences and the correct sentences). A triphasic ELAN-LAN-P600 effect was produced by the Mandarin Chinese native speakers. However, there was no ELAN and LAN in Indonesian native speakers and Thai native speakers, except a 300–500 ms negativity widely distributed in the right hemisphere and P600-like effect. This suggests that both groups of Mandarin Chinese learners cannot reach the same level as Mandarin Chinese native speakers to process Mandarin Chinese aspect information, probably due to the complex feature of Mandarin Chinese aspect maker, the participants’ L2 proficiency and age of L2 acquisition.
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Badan, Linda, and Chiara Romagnoli. "The acquisition of Mandarin sentence final particles by Italian learners." International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 58, no. 4 (November 26, 2020): 475–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iral-2017-0090.

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AbstractThis article deals with the acquisition of four Mandarin sentence final particles ma, a, ba, ne by Italian native speakers. The research gives a contribution to the study of sentence final particles from an acquisition and didactic perspective, which has been scarcely investigated in the linguistic literature. The article proposes a quantitative and qualitative experimental analysis with two groups of Italian learners, one at elementary proficiency level and one at intermediate level. The research shows that ne and ba are the most challenging particles to acquire by Italian learners. We argue that this due to the fact that ne and ba are highly polyfunctional and they do not simply determine the type of clause. The functions of ne and ba tested in this paper, in fact, are better defined as discourse particles, whose meaning is highly dependent from the context. Moreover, the experiment demonstrates not only that the proficiency level is straightforward correlated to the mastery of sentence final particles, as expected, but also that the didactic tools play a crucial role. As a matter of fact, the results of this study opens up a number of pedagogical implications in relation to the teaching of Mandarin sentence final particles to Italian learners.
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Saft, Scott. "Stance in Talk: A Conversation Analysis of Mandarin Final Particles." Journal of Pragmatics 39, no. 2 (February 2007): 428–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.01.004.

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Tu, Xianghua. "Stance in Talk: A Conversation Analysis of Mandarin Final Particles." Journal of Pragmatics 38, no. 9 (September 2006): 1515–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.03.008.

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Zhang, Niina Ning. "Sentence-final aspect particles as finite markers in Mandarin Chinese." Linguistics 57, no. 5 (September 25, 2019): 967–1023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0020.

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Abstract In Mandarin Chinese, sentence-final aspect particles ne, le, and laizhe may occur in some types of embedded clauses, but not in other types, such as the complement of a control verb, a raising verb, lai ‘come’ and qu ‘go’, a non-epistemic modal, and the prepositional complementizer dui ‘to’. These latter types of clauses systematically show properties of nonfinite clauses in other languages. They are intrinsically embedded, ban pro-drop, their clause boundaries may be invisible for binding, and they disallow a speaker-oriented adverb and an epistemic modal. The restrictions on the distribution of the particles indicate that they are used in finite clauses only, although the language has no tense or case marker. The paper argues that finite clauses show speaker-oriented properties whereas nonfinite ones do not; instead, nonfinite clauses exhibit higher-clause-oriented properties. Identifying the role of speaker in the finiteness distinction reveals the capacity of finite clauses, whether or not the capacity is marked overtly.
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Quan, Lihong, and Jinlong Ma. "A study of repeat-formatted repair initiations in Mandarin Chinese conversation." Chinese Language and Discourse 10, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 158–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cld.18014.qua.

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Abstract Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis (or CA), this study examines three types of other-initiated repair initiators (henceforth OIs) that repeats some element in the trouble-source (henceforth repeats) in Chinese conversation: repeats suffixed with question particles ma (吗), repeats suffixed with question particles a (啊), and question-intonated repeats. It attempts to explore the differences between these typical formats, in terms of their forms/functions and the epistemic stance of the speaker who initiates repair. The main research findings indicate that question-intonated repeat implements an understanding check while repeat suffixed with question particles (ma or a) tends to serve different functions, in that, ma-suffixed repeat is inquiry-implicated while a-suffixed repeat contributes to constructing surprise, (dis)agreement or (dis)belief.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mandarin particles"

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Che, Dewei, and 車德偉. "The syntax of particles in Mandarin Chinese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206676.

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Chinese is noted for its rich inventory of particles that help to form sentences. However, a precise definition of particle is hard to achieve due to its wide range of forms and functions. Most words that are hard to categorize are dumped into this class. Naturally, there are two consequences that come out of this: 1) the difference is huge among groups and subgroups; 2) there seems to be no interconnectedness between groups. In these circumstances, this study mainly aims to address two issues: a) to establish particle as a theoretical construct that is distinguishable from other well-established constructs, and b) to present a unified analysis of the syntax of particles in Chinese. Through a close examination on particles in the cross-linguistic literature, it is found that particles in Mandarin Chinese are characterized by syntactic deficiency, i.e. inability to project. This study thus defines a Chinese particle as a ‘non-projecting word which is adjoined to X^(0,). A systematic account of particles in Chinese has remained as a conundrum due to their diversity. This study concerns two groups of particles in Mandarin Chinese, namely the structural particles and the verbal particles. The former has long been discussed in Chinese literature, while the latter is evolved out of this study. It is adequately shown that the so-called ‘verb-complement compounds’ in traditional Chinese literature are indeed ‘verb-particle combinations’. Accordingly, three types of verbal particles are specified in this study: aspectual, resultative, and directional. The syntactic behaviours of the structural particles and the verbal particles are intensively explored in this study. A unified analysis of these particles is achieved under the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It turns out that all of them share the same representation at c-structure. As a non-projecting category, the particle is head-adjoined to X and thus the formation of a syntactic construct. In other words, the particle is syntactically combined rather than lexically combined, represented by two nodes in a tree diagram. Their grammatical functions can be captured at f-structure with two possibilities: a co-head or an XCOMP. The same analysis is generalized to the syntax of the particle ge and the verbal particles in Cantonese. It is proved that particles in Cantonese also feature syntactic deficiency (i.e. inability to project). This dissertation is among the first of its kind to provide a unified analysis of the syntax of particles in Chinese. It is observed that certain particles are quite distinguishable from other word classes by their phrase structural realization. Different from previous studies that have tried to classify particles mainly according to their meanings and functions, this study explores another possibility: particles in Chinese can be captured structurally as a coherent group.
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Han, Yang. "A pragmatic study of some sentence-final and post-verbal particles in Mandarin Chinese." Thesis, University of York, 1988. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4278/.

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Leung, Helen Hue Lam. "The Semantics of Utterance Particles in Informal Hong Kong Cantonese (Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach)." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367055.

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This study identifies the semantic invariants of some commonly-used Cantonese utterance particles in Hong Kong Cantonese. The particles are a distinctive and ubiquitous feature of informal, everyday Cantonese, occurring every 1.5 seconds on average (Luke 1990, 11). The particles are necessary for expressing speakers’ transitory attitudes, assumptions, or feelings connected with an utterance. Although they are not grammatically obligatory, conversation sounds unnatural when they are omitted. There are approximately 30 ‘basic’ particles, which can combine with each other to form ‘clusters’, resulting in roughly 100 variations. This number easily surpasses that of comparable particles in Mandarin, and is matched by very few, if any, other languages. Semantic analysis of Cantonese utterance particles is challenging because their meanings are extremely elusive, even to native speakers. The range of use of each particle is so varied and wide- ranging that some Cantonese speakers and scholars have concluded that the particles have no stable semantic content. Prior research on the particles has produced contradictory, vague, obscure or inaccurate descriptions.
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Song, Na. "Les particules finales enclitiques dans le dialecte de Baoding : une étude typologique de leurs valeurs temporelles, aspectuelles, modales et évidentielles (TAME)." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020INAL0011.

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Cette étude porte sur les valeurs temporelles, aspectuelles, modales et évidentielles (TAME) des particules enclitiques placées en fin de proposition ou de phrase dans le dialecte mandarin parlé à Baoding (Hebei, Chine). Ces particules inaccentuées, fréquentes dans les dialogues, assurent diverses fonctions sémantiques et pragmatiques. Mais certaines d’entre elles ont des valeurs relevant de l’aspect, du temps, du mode et de l’évidentialité, ainsi que des valeurs illocutoires. La première partie de la thèse inclut une présentation du dialecte de Baoding et un état de l’art sur les notions de temps, d’aspect, de modalité et d’évidentialité. Elle donne une vue d’ensemble des particules finales du dialecte de Baoding et des divers paradigmes selon lesquels elles s’organisent. La deuxième partie s’attache à rendre compte du fonctionnement de ces particules et de leurs valeurs temporelles, aspectuelles, modales et évidentielles, en décrivant en détail huit d’entre elles. Il s’agit des particules finales exprimant : le mouvement associé (=tɕhi et =lɛ) ; l’aspect imperfectif (=ni et =lɛ.tʂo) ; le changement d’état (=lɛ), l’action imminente (la particule de l’appréhensif =lɛ.ia et la particule égophorique =ia) ; et enfin le prioritif (la particule =tʂo). Ce travail, qui s’appuie sur des données originales recueillies sur le terrain, constitue la première description d’ensemble du système temporel, aspectuel, modal et évidentiel (TAME) encodé par les particules enclitiques finales dans un dialecte mandarin non standard, qui se révèle assez différent de celui du chinois standard. Cette thèse vient donc compléter utilement nos connaissances sur la nature et l’ampleur de la variation linguistique au sein des langues sinitiques, et en particulier au sein des dialectes mandarins
This study focuses on the temporal, aspectual, modal and evidential (TAME) values of clause-final enclitic particles in the Mandarin dialect spoken in Baoding (Hebei, China). These unstressed particles perform various semantic and pragmatic functions, but some of them also encode tense, aspect mood and evidentiality (TAME) as well as illocutionary force. The first part of the thesis includes a presentation of the Baoding dialect and a state of the art on the notions of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality. It gives an overview of the final particles of the Baoding dialect and the various paradigms which structure them. The second part describes the TAME system encoded by these particles, by recording the functions of eight of them, which express: associated motion (=tɕhi and =lɛ); imperfective aspect (=ni and =lɛ.tʂo); change of state (=lɛ), imminent action (the apprehensive particle = lɛ.ia and the egophoric particle =ia); and prioritive (particle =tʂo). This study, which is based on original field data, constitutes the first overall description of the TAME system encoded by final enclitic particles in a non-standard Mandarin dialect, and contributes to our knowledge of linguistic variation within Sinitic languages
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Lee, Ok Joo. "The pragmatics and intonation of ma-particle questions in Mandarin." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1283176733.

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Wiener, Seth. "The Representation, Organization and Access of Lexical Tone by Native and Non-NativeMandarin Speakers." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429827661.

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Pan, Junnan. "Interrogation et quantification : le rôle et la fonction des particules et des syntagmes interrogatifs en chinois mandarin." Nantes, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007NANT3013.

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Pan, Junnan Boucher Paul. "Interrogation et quantification le rôle et la fonction des particules et des syntagmes interrogatifs en chinois mandarin /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://castore.univ-nantes.fr/castore/GetOAIRef?idDoc=24766.

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Hu, Yang. "Acquisition of English verb-prepositional phrase and verb-particle constructions by native speakers of Mandarin and Spanish." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502176.

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XU, YU-LING, and 許玉玲. "Mandarin sentential particles and particle questions." Thesis, 1989. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62524316375828737988.

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Books on the topic "Mandarin particles"

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Wu, Ruey-Jiuan. Stance in talk: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003.

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Wu, Ruey-Jiuan. Stance in talk : a conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2004.

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Liu, Mingming. Varieties of Alternatives: Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin. Springer, 2018.

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Liu, Mingming. Varieties of Alternatives: Focus Particles and wh-Expressions in Mandarin. Springer, 2017.

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Chappell, Hilary, and Alain Peyraube. Modality and Mood in Sinitic. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.14.

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After defining auxiliary verbs as a grammatical category in Sinitic languages, this chapter sets out to analyze the notion of modality as expressed primarily by the Chinese modal verbs. Beginning with a brief sketch of their diachronic evolution, we proceed to treat this category in each of three major Sinitic languages, namely, Standard Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese, and Taiwanese Southern Min (Hokkien). It is shown that the main modal verbs possess different sets of polysemy in each of the three languages. Potential verb compounds are also considered, as well as clause-final modal particles coding speaker stance, both being characteristic of East and Southeast Asian languages in general. Although Sinitic languages do not mark mood inflectionally, an important discussion regarding this category is dedicated to sentence types and the role of negation, intimately connected with the expression of the irrealis, the interrogative and the imperative in Sinitic languages.
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Book chapters on the topic "Mandarin particles"

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Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. "Sentence-final Particles." In Parts of Speech in Mandarin, 133–43. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0398-1_10.

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Lee, Peppina Po-lun. "Additive focus particles." In Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, 37–102. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in Chinese linguistics: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203705223-3.

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Lee, Peppina Po-lun. "Restrictive focus particles." In Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, 103–69. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in Chinese linguistics: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203705223-4.

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Liu, Mingming. "Varieties of Alternatives: Mandarin Focus Particles." In Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, 43–79. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6208-7_3.

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Wei, Haley Wei. "Sentence-internal discourse particles in Mandarin Chinese." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 509–36. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.272.18wei.

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Chen, I.-Hsuan. "The Emergence of Scalar Particles dou and ye in the OV Word Order in Mandarin Chinese." In Studies in East Asian Linguistics, 95–143. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0170-4_4.

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Li, Xiaoshi, Robert Bayley, Xinye Zhang, and Yaqiong Cui. "Chapter 2. An investigation of the use of the multifunctional particle ‑le by second language learners of Mandarin Chinese." In Studies in Language Variation, 15–42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/silv.28.02li.

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Chu-Ren, Huang, Hsieh Shu-Kai, and Chen Keh-Jiann. "T: Particles." In Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech, 230–31. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315669014-14.

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"Modal particles." In Yufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar, 260–70. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203785553-34.

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Paul, Waltraud, and Shanshan Yan. "Chapter 7. Sentence-final particles in mandarin Chinese." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.276.07pau.

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Conference papers on the topic "Mandarin particles"

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Zhu, Junping. "Structure of Mandarin Particles with Evidence of Acquisition Data." In 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.045.

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Yang Liu. "A particle swarm optimization algorithm for Mandarin speech recognition." In 2009 Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications (PACIIA 2009). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/paciia.2009.5406637.

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Reports on the topic "Mandarin particles"

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Porat, Ron, Doron Holland, and Linda Walling. Identification of Citrus Fruit-Specific and Pathogen-Induced Promoters and Their Use in Molecular Engineering. United States Department of Agriculture, January 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2001.7585202.bard.

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This one year BARD project was funded to develop methods to monitor promoter activity a gene expression patterns in citrus fruit. To fulfill this goal, we divided the research tasks between both labs so that the Israeli side evaluated the use of microprojectile bombardment ; a tool to evaluate transient gene expression in various citrus fruit tissues, and the US side optimized technical parameters required for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of various citrus cultivars. Microprojectile bombardment appeared to be a very efficient method for transient gene expression analysis in citrus leaf tissues but was somewhat less applicable in fruit tissues. Nevertheless, we did succeeded to achieve significant levels of 35S-GUS gene expression in young green flavedo tissue. However, only single random spots of 35S-GUS gene expression were detected mature flavedo and in juice sacs and albedo tissue. Overall, we assume that following some more technical improvements particle bombardment could provide a useful technique to rapidly analyze promoter activity at least in the flavedo tissue. For Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, we found that shoot cultures of 'Washington' navel oranges,'Fairchild' mandarins,'Eureca' lemons,'Troyer' citrange and various grapefruits provided a more reliable and consistent source of tissue for transformation than germinated seedlings. Moreover, various growth media's (McCown, Quoirin & Lepoivre, DCR) further improved shoot and root growth relative to MS mineral media, which is commonly used. Also pure white light (using bulbs which do not emit UV or blue light) improved shoot growth in various citrus varieties, and paromomycin appeared to be a more efficient antibiotic for the selection of transgenic plants than Kanamycin. Overall, these optimizations improve transformation efficacy and shoot growth and rooting capacity. In addition to the development of transformation methods, both Israeli and US labs achieved progress in the identification of citrus fruit-specific promoters. In Israel, we isolated a 3.6 kb promoter fragment of the thiamine biosynthesis c-thi gene, which is highly expressed in fruit peel tissue, whereas in the US we isolated a 1.5 kb promoter fragment of the citrus seed-specific cDNA CssH. The identification of more fruit-specific cDNAs and their corresponding promoter regions is currently in progress.
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