The current study investigated spectral components of vowels that contribute to Mandarin and English sentence intelligibility. Sentences were processed to preserve various amounts of vowel information. Processing parameters ensured similar proportions of speech preserved between the two languages. In the first experiment, speech segments, primarily containing vocalic cues, were processed to fla...

The effects of mandarin scions on peel components and juice quality parameters were investigated in this study. Peel flavor components were extracted by using cold-press and eluted by using n-hexane. Then all analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS. Total soluble solids, total acids, pH value, ascorbic acid as well as density and ash were determined in juice obtained from mandarin scions. Twenty-seven, Tw...

Indonesia sebagai negara dengan sumber pendapatan terbesar yang salah satunya dari industri pariwisata, berupaya menjalin kerjasama berbagai negara, adalah China. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui persepsi pemandu wisata bahasa mandarin terhadap kebutuhan dunia pariwisata berbahasa di Yogyakarta dan kemampuan Mandarin. menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif-deskriptif. Subjek Bahasa M...

Mandarin Chinese WH-questions exhibit two syntactically interesting characteristics. First, WH-words that bear interrogative information always occur in situ. Second, in spite the above fact, I find that Mandarin WH-questions, with bounded WH-words, share the grammatical behaviors common to questions with unbounded and dislocated WH-words in other languages. Hence, intuitively, an account of Ma...

In Mandarin, there is a special acoustic feature—tonal pitch range, which is relative to stress. In this paper, we present a novel concept—tonal range ratio (TRR), which is based on tonal pitch range, and make a study on the correlation between TRR and stress in Mandarin. And we developed a system to automatically detect stresses in words and sentences based on TRR in Mandarin. We obtained high...

Acoustic characteristics of American English sentence stress produced by native Mandarin speakers are reported. Fundamental frequency (F0), vowel duration, and vowel intensity in the sentence-level stress produced by 40 Mandarin speakers were compared to those of 40 American English speakers. Results obtained from two methods of stress calculation indicated that Mandarin speakers of American En...

Does the language you speak affect how you think about the world? This question is taken up in three experiments. English and Mandarin talk about time differently--English predominantly talks about time as if it were horizontal, while Mandarin also commonly describes time as vertical. This difference between the two languages is reflected in the way their speakers think about time. In one study...

Cochlear implant (CI) speech performance is typically evaluated using well-enunciated speech produced at a normal rate by a single talker. CI users often have greater difficulty with variations in speech production encountered in everyday listening. Within a single talker, speaking rate, amplitude, duration, and voice pitch information may be quite variable, depending on the production context....

While many research studies have described Cantonese-Mandarin contact and the languages’ mutual influence in Guangdong Province, few of them delve into the linguistic mechanism that triggers Cantonese’s material (e.g. words, pronunciations, and/or grammar) transfer to Mandarin. This paper will work to explain this mechanism in Van Coetsem’s (1988) framework of “Borrowing and Imposition”. The Ca...

The current study investigated the spectral distribution of vowel cues to Mandarin and English sentence intelligibility. Sentences were segmentally interrupted to preserve various amounts of vowel information. Interruption parameters ensured that similar durations of speech were presented across the two languages. The remaining vowel cues were then either high-pass or low-pass filtered. Results...