Probing into the Historical and Geographical Variants of Mandarin: A Computational Approach
This computational study reveals the primacy of language contact in the variation of language (Sarah Grey Thomason 2003). The visualization and further analysis confirm the reconceptualization of Chinese linguistic history with the theory of Horizontal Transmission (Shen 2016). Horizontal Transmissi...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2018
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/624 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1707&context=masters_theses_2 |