A Comparison of Taiwanese, Taiwan Mandarin, and Peking Mandarin

The Multilingual and Multi-Orthographic Taiwan-Based Internet: Creative Uses of Writing Systems on College-Affiliated BBSs

“…Note that the Taiwanese‐accented Mandarin discussed here is a cultural stereotype of the non‐standard Mandarin spoken by native speakers of Taiwanese. It does not refer to the national dialect of Mandarin spoken in Taiwan, which is termed “Taiwan Mandarin” in linguistic research such as that by Cheng (1997), as contrasted with the Mandarin spoken in mainland China or Singapore and elsewhere 1 . Taiwanese‐accented Mandarin shares with Taiwanese the sociolinguistic meanings of backwardness and congeniality, but lacks the purist value Taiwanese holds and thus is a highly stigmatized variety among Taiwanese speakers.…”

“…1 1 A definition of the linguistic features of Taiwanese‐accented Mandarin is not provided in this study, since it focuses on Taiwanese‐accented Mandarin as a local stereotype rather than as an autonomous linguistic system. For further discussion of the linguistic contrasts between Taiwan Mandarin, Taiwanese‐accented Mandarin, and Peking Mandarin spoken in China, see Cheng (1997), Kubler (1979), and Li (1992). …”

Direction matters: Event-related brain potentials reflect extra processing costs in switching from the dominant to the less dominant language

“…Due to the evolution of the Chinese languages and the intensive language contacts, Mandarin and Taiwanese share many grammatical structures (Cheng, 1985;Kubler, 1985); however, the phonetic inventories and phonological rules of the two languages differ greatly. In terms of segments, Mandarin has 22 consonants and 12 vowels (Zhao & Li, 2009), while Taiwanese has 18 consonants and 10 vowels, including syllable-final glottal stops that are absent in Mandarin (Chung, 1996). In addition, oral vowels and nasal vowels are phonemic contrasts in Taiwanese (e.g.,/sa/"to take" vs./sã/ "clothes"), but not in Mandarin (e.g., [sa] and [sã] "to scatter").…”

What does it mean to be a girl withqizhi?:Refinement, gender and language ideologies in contemporary Taiwan1

“…Note that the Taiwanese‐accented Mandarin discussed here is treated as a prevalent cultural stereotype of the non‐standard Mandarin spoken by native speakers of Taiwanese. It does not refer to the national dialect of Mandarin spoken in Taiwan, which is termed ‘Taiwan Mandarin’ in linguistic research, such as that by Cheng (1997), as contrasted with the Mandarin spoken in mainland China or Singapore and elsewhere. Although researchers such as Kubler (1985) and Li (1985) have attempted to give a linguistic description of Taiwan guoyu as an autonomous variety, my interviewees’ responses to my request for a definition of this term reveal that its everyday usage encompasses a wider range of characteristics, stereotypical or not, associated with native Taiwanese speakers than Kubler and Li have suggested 5…”