The paper investigates tone realization in monosyllabic and disyllabic words in Cantonese, Cantonese-spoken Mandarin and Standard Mandarin, focusing on the deviations of tone realization in Cantonese-spoken Mandarin from standard Mandarin in monosyllabic and disyllabic words. The analysis on monosyllabic and disyllabic tone patterns shows that most of the tone deviations in Cantonese-accented M...

building retailer equity increases revenue and profitability by insulating retailers from competitors. store image is the basis of retailer equity, but extant literature offers little in sight in to the empirical research which takes store image dimensions as antecedents of retailer equity. this paper establishes a theoretical and empirical basis that shows the impact of selected store image di...

Despite falling prices for main memory and increasing sizes, main memory is still a scarce resource in database systems. Optimizing main memory utilization is a major objective for main memory databases as more free memory can be used to improve performance or to store larger systems in the database. Several publications proposed separating frequently and less frequently accessed data (i.e., ho...

PURPOSE English and Mandarin are the 2 most spoken languages in the world, yet it is not known how stuttering manifests in English-Mandarin bilinguals. In this research, the authors investigated whether the severity and type of stuttering is different in English and Mandarin in English-Mandarin bilinguals, and whether this difference was influenced by language dominance. METHOD Thirty English...

abstract brown rot is one of the fungal disease in the north of iran. symptoms on infected fruit in the initiation of infection appear as small dusky spots resembling peteca. then infected tissues were removed and cultured on the parph selective medium. based on morphological characters, growth rates, growth patterns and cardinal temperatures for growth, p. parasitica as a causal agent for mand...

The current paper discusses first investigations aimed to lay the groundwork for the development of computer-aided pronunciation training for teaching Mandarin to Germans. We conducted a contrastive analysis of the two languages leading to a set of tokens for a production and perception experiment involving German first-year students of Mandarin. Their data were perceptually evaluated by a teac...

Native speakers of Mandarin Chinese have difficulty producing native-like English stress contrasts. Acoustically, English lexical stress is multidimensional, involving manipulation of fundamental frequency (F0), duration, intensity and vowel quality. Errors in any or all of these correlates could interfere with perception of the stress contrast, but it is unknown which correlates are most probl...

The linguistic content of the masker is important for the benefit of masking release in understanding noise-corrupted speech. The present work investigated how Mandarin sentence recognition is influenced by background noise with different linguistic content via two studies, i.e., speech perception and intelligibility prediction. Mandarin sentences were corrupted by Mandarin-, Cantonese-, and En...