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    Yuen Ren Chao (3 November 1892 – 25 February 1982), also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer...
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    differing. The poem was written in the 1930s by the Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao as a linguistic demonstration. The poem is coherent and grammatical...
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  • to practice Western medicine in China. She was married to linguist Yuen Ren Chao. Yang was born in Nanjing into the Yang family, but was raised by her...
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  • materials. The book emerged in collaboration with her husband, Yuen Ren Chao, and daughter, Rulan Chao Pian, and coined the commonly used English terms for Chinese...
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  • writing Standard Chinese in the Latin alphabet. It was conceived by Yuen Ren Chao, who led a group of linguists to develop the system from 1925 to 1926...
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    series of iconic tone letters based on a musical staff was devised by Yuen Ren Chao in the 1920s by adding a reference stave to the existing convention...
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  • known as Barnett–Chao (abbreviated here as B–C) is based on the principles of the Gwoyeu Romatzyh system (GR) developed by Yuen Ren Chao in the 1920s, which...
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  • fictional species Chao method, a way of indicating Chinese tones devised by Yuen Ren Chao Chǎo technique (炒), a Chinese stir frying technique Chao, part of several...
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  • Problem of the Chinese Language" co-authored by the Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao (1892–1982) and poet Hu Shih (1891–1962) has been identified as a turning...
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  •  209–232. ISBN 978-9-027-24785-8. Chao, Yuen Ren (1976). Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics: Essays by Yuen Ren Chao. Stanford University Press. p. 25...
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  • zì; Wade–Giles: t'ung1-tzu4) is a diaphonemic orthography invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major varieties of Chinese simultaneously...
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    result if all of these words could be used as-is. The 20th century Yuen Ren Chao poem Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den exploits this, consisting of...
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  • Yuen Ren Chao. The CHINOPERL (Chinese Oral and Performing Literature) organization was founded in 1969 by a group of sinologists which included Yuen Ren...
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  • as a noun meaning "son". This practice may have been introduced by Yuen-ren Chao. The small-sized characters have been provisionally accepted for Unicode...
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  • different analyses, equally valid, could be made for the same data. Yuen Ren Chao (1934), in his article "The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of...
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  • poem "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ" ("Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den") by Yuen Ren Chao. The words are written differently in the original language (Classical...
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    writing systems. General Chinese is a diaphonemic orthography invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major varieties of Chinese simultaneously...
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  • recordings of Wang Pu, a member of the Commission, and of noted linguist Yuen Ren Chao. The notation used to indicate the prescribed pronunciation was zhuyin...
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  • Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese (1947), which was compiled by Yuen Ren Chao and Lien Sheng Yang, made numerous important lexicographic innovations...
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  • became interested in historical phonology and studied the works of Yuen Ren Chao, Wang Li and others at Wenzhou's library. In 1954, unable to enter university...
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    provide the sentence meaning through context is Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao (1997). Chao's poem, entitled Making Sense Out of Nonsense: The Story of My...
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  • in the Stone Den (pinyin: Shī Shì shí shī shǐ), homophonic poem by Yuen Ren Chao This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shishi...
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    separate languages rather than dialects of the same language; citing Yuen Ren Chao, John DeFrancis likened the differences among some dialects as like...
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    邵仁枚 Shao Renmei Shao Jen-mei n/a Runme Shaw 趙元任 Zhao Yuanren Chao Yüan-jen n/a Yuen Ren Chao Known by their initialized Western ordering names and/or native...
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  • Christian theologian Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任; 1892–1982), Chinese-born American linguist Chung-Yao Chao (趙忠堯; 1902–1998), Chinese physicist Chao Shao-an (趙少昂; 1905–1998)...
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  • JSTOR 595651. Reprinted as Chao, Yuen Ren (1976), "What is correct Chinese?", Aspects of Chinese sociolinguistics: essays by Yuen Ren Chao, Stanford University...
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  • T. Yang, Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara Yuen Ren Chao* Woo Tsin-hang*, linguist Mai Chen, constitutional lawyer, emigrated...
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  • some authors consider it a tone sandhi akin to the third tone sandhi. Yuen Ren Chao considered the changed tone 2 to be identical to tone 1, and Cao Wen...
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  • participated in dialect surveys of Yunnan and Sichuan under the direction of Yuen Ren Chao. In 1932, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University...
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  • 施氏食狮史; traditional Chinese: 施氏食獅史; pinyin: Shī Shì shí shī shǐ), by Yuen Ren Chao The nephew who treats hemorrhoids [zh] (Chinese: 侄治痔; pinyin: zhí zhì...
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