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To serve as a helpful and quick aid to help non-Chinese speakers pronounce Chinese names, we have created a webpage that provides a simple guide to pronunciation. Chinese is distinct in that it is a tonal language. But the allomorphic feature of tones is not usually marked in alphabetic Romanization of Chinese (called pinyin). Since the user of this guide will likely encounter such unmarked Romanization, we will dismiss tones in transcribing the sounds in pinyin.
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Finally, this guide will provide Romanization and audio files for 1) common Chinese surnames and 2) the names of faculty members and some graduate students of the Chinese program at SILC as examples since there are no common given names in Chinese.
The CLP is involved in three areas of Chinese language study. We publish textbooks for use in Chinese courses, sell audio/video materials to accompany Chinese textbooks published by the Princeton University Press, and are involved in organizing an annual Chinese Pedagogy Conference, held each year at the campus of Princeton University.
To order our materials, please download an order form (.pdf). The CLP operates on a pre-pay basis only, and does not accept credit cards. Please send in your order along with a check or money order made out to the "Chinese Linguistics Project." For more payment options, please email [email protected].
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Please help us preserve the house for future generations by refraining from touching objects and the structure itself. Non-flash photography and videography is permitted for personal use. The use of tripods or selfie sticks is not allowed. Please walk with care and watch out for uneven stonework and raised thresholds. The house offers limited wheelchair accessibility. Call 978-542-1644 for more information.
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Please pick up your complimentary audio guide, available in English and Mandarin, at the information desk 10 minutes before your visit. Please note: Plan to bring your own pair of headphones. Before your visit, press #50 to listen to an introduction to the house. Once inside, look for stone blocks with two-digit numbers. Press the number plus the play > button to hear the audio.
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Please be at the doors to Yin Yu Tang five minutes before your scheduled visit with your audio guide in hand. A staff member will alert you shortly before the end of your time slot. If you arrive late, your visit will be shortened and entry is not guaranteed. Your ticket is valid only for the time indicated.
University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl reported today that 9-month-old American infants who were exposed to Mandarin Chinese for less than five hours in a laboratory setting were able to distinguish phonetic elements of that language. It is the first experimental demonstration of phonetic learning from natural exposure to language under controlled laboratory conditions, she said.
In a companion study headed by Kuhl, another group of American infants was exposed to the same Mandarin material using a professionally produced DVD or audiotape but showed no ability to distinguish phonetic units of that language.
Both groups then were tested for their ability to distinguish between the two Mandarin sounds using a head-turn conditioning procedure that is frequently used in tests of infant speech perception. The infants exposed to Mandarin were significantly better at distinguishing the two target sounds than were infants who only heard English. In fact, the performance of the American infants exposed to Mandarin for the first time between 9 and 10 months was statistically equivalent to infants in Taiwan who had listened to Mandarin for 10 months, according to Kuhl. The results show that the decline in foreign-language speech perception can be reversed with short-term exposure, she said.
In addition, the phonetic learning of Mandarin appears to be long lasting. The American infants were tested from two to 12 days after their last exposure to Mandarin and the researchers found there were no significant differences in their ability to discriminate between the sounds.
The second study explored the role of social interaction in learning a foreign language. The procedure was similar to the initial study except that half the infants were exposed to Mandarin by a DVD showing the same Mandarin speakers and materials on a 17-inch television. The other infants received their Mandarin exposure from an audio-only presentation of the DVD.
At the end of the Mandarin exposure all of the infants were tested using the same head-turn procedure. Results clearly showed that DVD or audiotape exposure did not lead to phonetic learning, Kuhl said. The infants in this experiment scored at the same level as the English-only babies in the first study who were not exposed to any Mandarin. The researchers also noted that the infants who watched the DVD or listened to the audiotape paid significantly less attention than the babies who were in the live Mandarin and English conditions.
Co-investigators on the two studies are Feng-Ming Tsao and Huei-Mei Liu, post-doctoral researchers at the UW who earned their doctorates at the university. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the William P. and Ruth Gerberding Professorship and the Talaris Research Institute and Apex Foundation created by Bruce and Jolene McCaw.
Western scholars visiting China started experimenting early on with romanization, that is with a system for conveying Chinese sounds through the Latin alphabet that English and most European languages use. The Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci, for example, developed a system of romanization for Chinese during the sixteenth century, and used it to create a Chinese-Portuguese dictionary. This romanization system allowed speakers of Portuguese to sound out Chinese characters in an alphabet that was intelligible to them.
During the past hundred years or so, both western and Chinese scholars have invented many systems for romanizing Chinese. A selection of these systems are included in the table below. Listen to the Chinese audio in the left column and then look at how the various romanization systems render the words in Latin letters.
Pinyin (also known as Hanyu Pinyin) is a romanization system developed in the early 1950s by Chinese scholars on the basis of earlier work in the 1930s and 1940s. Unlike other romanization systems, however, Pinyin was not invented for teaching the Chinese language to foreigners. Its primary purpose was to teach standard pronunciation within China and to promote literacy by giving Chinese students a way to look up the pronunciation of unfamiliar characters in a dictionary. As it was not developed for foreigners, Pinyin has a few quirks that make it more challenging than some other romanization systems. But unlike those systems, Pinyin is widely used in China itself.
With Pinyin you will be able to pronounce the names of Chinese people and places in China mentioned in news articles. You can look up words in an English-Chinese dictionary and know how to pronounce the Chinese translation. You can also quickly learn the meaning of new words that you hear by looking them up in Chinese-English dictionary, as most dictionaries are organized according to Pinyin.
Pinyin input is relatively easy to install on a computer (Windows or Mac) or mobile device (Android or iOS) to produce Chinese characters. Over the course of these lessons you will learn to use these systems, but keep in mind that they (like the dictionary above) are designed to search based on word frequency and context for the syllable without any focus on its tone.
Put simply, spelling in English is complicated! In most other languages spelling is simple enough that the idea of a contest to see which child can spell the most words correctly would seem rather pointless.
The FBI is warning the public about criminal actors impersonating Chinese police officers to defraud the US-based Chinese community, in particular Chinese students attending universities in the United States. The criminal actors tell victims they are being investigated for an alleged financial crime in China and need to pay to avoid arrest. The criminal actors then direct victims to consent to 24/7 video and audio monitoring. The scheme consists of four phases.
Criminal actors typically use technology to mask or "spoof" their true telephone numbers, calling victims from phone numbers that appear to be coming from a mobile telephone service provider, a large retailer, a delivery service, or the Chinese Embassy/Consulate. The criminal actors inform victims that their personal identifiable information is linked to either a subject or a victim of a financial fraud investigation. 152ee80cbc
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