Acoustical Studies Of Mandarin Vowels And Tones

Originally published in 1976, this book applies the techniques of acoustic phonetics to Mandarin Chinese.

This book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese. It highlights perception and production of speech in healthy and clinical populations and in children and adults. This book provides diverse perspectives and reviews of cutting-edge research in past decades on how Chinese speech is processed and learned. Along with each chapter, future research directions have been discussed. With these unique features and the broad coverage of topics, this book appeals to not only scholars and students who study speech perception in preverbal infants and in children and adults learning Chinese, but also to teachers with interests in pedagogical applications in teaching Chinese as Second Language.

In this book, some of today’s leading neurolinguists and psycholinguists provide insight into the nature of phonological processing using behavioural measures, computational modeling, EEG and fMRI. The essays cover a range of topics including categorization, acoustic variability and invariance, underspecification, talker-specificity and machine learning, focusing on the acoustics, perception, acquisition and neural representation of speech.

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.

For the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the study of artificial intelligence and rule-based expert systems. Their research and development have progressed very rapidly to a point where many theorems and principles can be applied to solve realistic problems. This volume, containing highly selected papers from the International Conference on Chinese and Oriental Languages Computing (1987) is perhaps the first one ever to systematically present papers and articles incorporating such intelligence technologies into Chinese language computing. The 12 articles are classified into 3 sections, namely, (1) knowledge–based systems, (2) speech processing and recognition, and (3) character recognition and knowledge pattern representation. Contents:Generating Chinese Responses in a Medical Question-Answering System (P Y Li & M Evens)Prolog–Based Chinese Expert Systems (L S Hsu)Word–Based Chinese Language Understanding System (T S Yao)Knowledge–Based Chinese Letter Writer (T T Koh)Recognition of Lexical Tones for Isolated Syllables and Disyllables in Mandarin Chinese (W J Yang et al.)A Logical Approach to Movement Transformations in Mandarin Chinese (H H Chen et al.)Efficient Speech Recognition Technique for the Finals of Mandarin Syllables (C–H Hwang et al.)Fast Chinese Characters Accessing Technique Using Mandarin Phonetic Transcriptions (C C Chang & H C Wu)System for On–Line Recognition of Chinese Characters (K–J Chen et al.)Stroke Relation Coding — A New Approach to the Recognition of Multi–Font Printed Chinese Characters (P-N Chen et al.) Knowledge Pattern Representation of Chinese Characters (P S-P Wang)Kanji Recognition Method which Detects Writing Errors (T Morishita et al.) Readership: Computer scientists.