We report acoustic data on disyllabic tone sandhi patterns in Shaoxing Wu Chinese. With
quantitative analyses, we confirmed the impressionistic observations that 1) both tonal register …

Is political trust in China anomalous? In most countries there are systematic differences in
the level of trust in national and local government that take one of three patterns. In some …

… This paper brings novel object fronting data from Wu Chinese to tackle issues related to
indirect passives. The most prominent characteristic of indirect passive sentences is that they all …

… represented by the tone sandhi patterns in Wu Chinese. Now that the interaction between
this prominent prosodic property of Wu Chinese and voicing contrast could be observed in this …

… Wu Chinese (1) □ Wu Chinese is one of the major branches of Sinitic languages with
about 74 million speakers covering 160 cities and counties, mainly distributed in the area of …

Nelson I. Wu, Chinese and Indian architecture, the city of man, the mountain of god, and the
realm of the immortals, George Braziller, New York, 1963, 128 pages, 161 photos, 1 carte. …

… The coexistence of tonal register and voicing contrasts suggests that Wu Chinese is at an
intermediate stage of tonogenesis [5]. In other words, the synchronic data of Wu Chinese may …

This dissertation investigates the contribution of Dr. John CH Wu (1899-1986) to the inculturation
of the Gospel in Chinese culture. The question of how to relate the Gospel message to …

… To sum up, this study shows that corrective focus in Xiangshan Wu Chinese induces a
higher relative intensity and lengthened duration on the focused syllable. Tone sandhi patterns …