- Nov 2021
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countryoftheblind.blogspot.com countryoftheblind.blogspot.com
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http://countryoftheblind.blogspot.com/2012/01/mnemonics-for-pronouncing-chinese.html
The Marilyn method is a means of creating associated characters and places to sounds/tones in Chinese for memorizing kanji.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Lynne Kelly</span> in Foreign Languages – a call for opinions – Lynne Kelly (<time class='dt-published'>11/22/2021 12:44:51</time>)</cite></small>
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- Sep 2021
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knowablemagazine.org knowablemagazine.org
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Whistlers of tonal languages thus face a dilemma: Should they whistle the tones, or the vowels and consonants? “In whistling, you can produce only one of the two. They have to choose,” says Meyer.
Non-tonal speech is easy to transfer into whistling language, but tonal languages have to choose between whistling the tones or the vowels and consonants as one can only produce one of the two with whistling.
What effect does this tell us about the information content and density of languages, particularly tonal languages and whistling?
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