This study examined how Vietnamese learners of Mandarin who varied in their learning experience perceived synthesized Mandarin tones. We aimed to assess whether and how learners’ sensitivity to tonal correlates is commensurate with their knowledge and experience in the target language. 60 Vietnamese learners of Mandarin in Hanoi, and native speakers of Mandarin, were recruited to participate in...

An experiment was carried out at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during the year 2019-20 to study effect of different fungicides and calcium nitrate on quality shelf life Kinnow mandarin”. A spray carbendazim, copper oxychloride, mancozeb, propiconazole, nimbecidine, nitrate, their combinations were done ten days prior harvesting years old plants. When compared fru...

Previous studies in interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB) did not separate the effects of shared knowledge of L1 in non-native talkers from those of listeners through extensive exposure to accented L2 speech, which is crucial to the mechanism underlying ISIB. This preliminary study attempts to tease apart the two by comparing perception accuracy of Mandarin-accented English words ...

Citrus fruit tree has great commercial importance with mandarin (Citrus reticulata) as the second most important citrus crop and includes a wide range of true hybrid cultivars; however, there is lack studies about characterization evaluation germplasm for Physico-chemical morphological traits. A study on varietal selection been underway at National Research Programme since 2005-06. Evaluation s...

The peel components of Mandarin, Sour lemon and Sour orange were analyzed. Peel flavorcomponents were extracted using cold-press method and eluted using n-hexane. All compoundswere analyzed using GC-FID and GC-MS. Twenty-seven, Twenty-four and Twenty-nine peelcomponents were identified in Mandarin, Sour lemon and Sour orange respectively. They includealdehydes, alcohols, esters, monoterpenes an...

This paper addresses serial verb constructions (SVCs) in English and Mandarin. Although Mandarin and English is different in the total number of SVC types, three so-called SVC types are found to be common across English and Mandarin: purposive SVCs (e.g. go eat); causative SVCs (e.g. I made him laugh); perceptive SVCs (e.g. I saw him laugh). This paper has demonstrated typical SVCs have unique ...

Organic acid accumulation in the vacuole of juice cells of citrus fruits is a developmentally regulated process, the degree and timing of which varies greatly among species and varieties and is highly susceptible to environmental conditions (Clements, 1963; Ting and Vines, 1966; Vandercook, 1977). Total titratable acidity of the fruit juice of the acidless pummelo 2240 (Citrus maxima [Burm.] Me...

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...

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...

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...