An online database of phnological representation for Mandarin Chinese monosyllables.

[xiaoweizhao at gmail.com]

Dear Colleagues,

We (Xiaowei Zhao, University of Richmond; and Ping Li, Pennsylvania State  
University) have just developed an online database of phnological  
representation for Mandarin Chinese monosyllables. This system builds on  
the idea of slot-based syllabic template, as adopted by PatPho (A  
phonological pattern generator for neural networks, see Li & MacWhinney,  
2002). We hope that the database can provide psycholinguists and  
connectionnists an easily accessible interface of Mandarin Chinese  
characters' phonological representation. This representation system can be  
used for a variety of purposes, in particular, connectionist language  
modeling, and more generally, the study of Chinese phonology. It is also  
our hope that scientists working in the field of child language development  
(monolingual or multilingual with Chinese) can find the usfulness of this  
system in their studies. A paper described this system will be published on  
Behavior Research Methods soon.

If you are interested in this database, please go to:

http://cogsci.richmond.edu/Mandarin_patpho.php to find the online  
interactive querying system of it.

Your comments and suggestions on the database are extremely welcome!

Many thanks!

Best wishes,
Xiaowei Zhao

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Xiaowei Zhao, Ph.D.
Visiting Lecturer of Psychology

Department of Psychology
Richmond Hall, RM M08-2
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA 23173

Phone: 804-287-1915
Fax: 804-287-1905
email: xzhao2 at richmond.edu; xiaoweizhao at gmail.com

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