Pinyin is a phonological encoding system used to spell modern Chinese Mandarin due to the phonological opacity of Chinese characters. The present study examined the role of Pinyin spelling in the ...

Department of Linguistics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Orthographic Input and L2 Word Form Learning In cases where orthographic input facilitates L2 word form learning, learners may ...

Note: The Hanyu Pinyin variant with tone diacritics uses a middle dot (·) by default to indicate the fifth (neutral) tone. However, this library includes an optional method to print the Pinyin ...

Find English names that can be read in Chinese pinyin. This may help those who want to pick a English name that is close to their Chinese ones. For example, the English name Luke can be spelled in ...

So begins one of the most beautiful and well-known Tang dynasty poems, Farewell, composed by Wang Wei (AD699-761). To spell out this passage using Hanyu pinyin, mainland China’s official system of ...

Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so ...

As you know, the written scripts of some languages aren’t based on the ‘ABCDE’ alphabets, and since most keyboards are built in the alphabetic style, there had ...

Journal of Behavioral Education, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 207-223 (17 pages) This study examined the roles of pinyin and English words as stimulus prompts in the learning of Chinese ...