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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Chinese Language Origins
- The Origins of Human Language
- Out of Africa into Asia
- The Traditional Chinese Language Historical Periods
- Old Chinese
- Middle Chinese
- Early Mandarin to Modern Mandarin
- From Proto-Chinese to Old Chinese
- The Origin of Chinese Tones
- Mandarin Reflexes of Derivation in Old Chinese
- The Linguistic Affiliation of Chinese
- Chinese Is Not Related to Japanese
- 3 Chinese Regionalects
- The Regionalects
- Mandarin (Putonghua, Guoyu, Huayu)
- Sound System
- Syllables
- Chinese Morphemes
- Chinese Words
- Grammar
- SVO Word Order and ‘Second Position’
- The Verb Phrase
- The Noun Phrase
- Question Formation
- Topic, Focus and Old Information
- Aspect versus Tense
- The Left Periphery
- Pragmatics
- Discourse Analysis
- Beijing Mandarin Slang—Beijing tuhua ‘北京土话’
- Wu (e.g., Shanghainese)
- Yue (e.g., Cantonese)
- Min (e.g., Taiwanese)
- Gan
- Xiang
- Kejia (Hakka)
- Jin
- Which Regionalect Is the ‘Most Difficult’?
- Why Is Mandarin the ‘Standard’ Regionalect?
- How Different Are the Regionalects?
- 4 Chinese Writing and Reading
- Chinese Writing: Origins and Development
- What Are Characters Like Now?
- Strokes
- Simple versus Complex Characters
- The Six Traditional Character Types—The liu shu (六书)
- Phonetic-Semantic Compounds: Phonetic and Semantic Radicals
- How Many Characters Are There?
- How Many Characters Do People Know?
- Simplified versus Traditional Characters
- Which Are Easier to Learn, Simplified or Traditional Characters?
- Reading Chinese—Psychological Aspects
- 5 Learning Chinese
- Chinese Children Learning to Read and Write
- Chinese Children Learning to Speak
- Speaking Chinese Affects Children Learning to Count
- Adults Learning to Read and Write
- Adults Learning to Speak
- 6 Chinese Language and the Brain
- Dyslexia (Reading Deficit) in Chinese
- Factor Analytic Dyslexia (‘Cognitive’ Dyslexia) in Chinese
- Aphasia (Language Loss) in Chinese
- 7 Chinese Language and Culture
- Chinese Phonetic Loan Translations and Culture
- Chinese Naming Conventions
- Chinese Language and Thought
- Chinese Language and Society
- The Speech Characteristics of Social Groups in China
- The Simplification of Chinese Kinship Terms—China’s One- Child Policy
- Chinese Language and Chinese Food
- 8 What Can We Expect for the Chinese Language?
- Chinese Regionalects
- Chinese Writing
- Chinese Syllables and Sounds
- Chinese Words and Linguistic Typology
- Index
Figure 2.1Routes of migration into East Asia—the ‘southern’ route (red and white arrows), and the ‘overlapping’ model, which combines the northern (blue arrows) and southern routes
Figure 2.2The Split of the Proto-Sino-Tibetan Group into Proto-Tibeto-Burman and Proto-Chinese
Figure 2.3Proto-Sino-Tibetan language family tree
Figure 3.1Comparison of Tense and Aspect
Figure 3.2Min ‘Tone Sandhi Circle’
Figure 3.3Phonological Distance from Beijing Mandarin based on textual database comparison
Figure 3.4Hierarchical cluster trees for 15 Mandarin dialects and Chinese regionalects, based on (a) subjective intelligibility ratings, and (b) subjective similarity ratings
Figure 4.1Script types in the development of Chinese writing
Figure 4.2Eight basic Chinese character strokes
Figure 4.3The Chinese character ‘forever’ (yŏng), which contains the eight basic strokes
Figure 4.4The character ‘forever’, including stroke types and stroke order
←xiii | xiv→Figure 4.5The characters zhe, biang and nang
Figure 4.6Four examples of phonetic-semantic compounds
Figure 4.7Phonetic and semantic radical position configuration
Figure 5.1Stages of Chinese reading acquisition
Figure 5.2Counting Errors in 2-, 3-and 4-year-olds in China vs. U.S.
Figure 6.1Left inferior frontal gyrus activated in Chinese morphological processing
Figure 6.2The ‘dual-route’ reading model as applied to Chinese
Figure 6.3Visual Dyslexia (Chinese)
Figure 6.4Surface Dyslexia (Chinese)
Figure 6.5Phonological Dyslexia (Chinese)
Figure 6.6Deep Dyslexia (Chinese)
Figure 8.1Historical nasal attrition in the Chinese regionalects
Table 1.1Cross-language syllable rate, syllable inventory, syllable complexity and information density parameters
Table 2.1Historical Chinese language periods
Table 2.2Modern Mandarin reflexes of the ‘departing tone’ derivational morphology process in Old Chinese
Table 3.1Numbers of Chinese regionalect speakers
Table 3.2Mandarin initial consonants, IPA and pinyin
Table 3.4The syllable ‘mi’ pronounced with each of the four tones
Table 3.5Some phonetic features in a selection of Mandarin dialects
Table 3.6Mandarin syllable structure
Table 3.7Constraints on the Mandarin syllable
Table 3.8Four Morpheme types in Chinese
Table 3.9Chinese text sample—no word parsing information
Table 3.10Chinese text sample—parsed into words
Table 3.11Chinese complex word types
Table 3.12Voicing contrasts in English, Mandarin and Shanghainese bilabial initial consonants
←xv | xvi→Table 3.13Wu Tones (Shanghai dialect)
Table 3.14Shanghai two-syllable tone sandhi
Table 3.15Tones of different Yue dialects
Table 3.16Verb-to-noun tonal derivation in Yue
Table 3.17Head-modifier word structure in Yue
Table 3.20Gan regionalect Nanchang dialect tone system
Table 3.21Xiang regionalect tones (Changsha dialect)
Table 3.23Compound word morpheme order in Kejia vs. Mandarin
Details
- Pages
- XXIV, 206
- Publication Year
- 2021
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433179839
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433179846
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433179853
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433179822
- DOI
- 10.3726/b17610
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (May)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2021. XXIV, 206 pp., 25 b/w ill., 3 color ill., 71 tables.
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