Learning Mandarin as first language: The speech production of Mandarin plosive consonants by bilingual Sino-KDMs / Chai Chee Wah

• Main Author: Chai, Chee Wah
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Akademi Pengajian Bahasa 2021
• Subjects: Language and languages; Consonants; Mandarin dialects
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46222/1/46222.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46222/

The Sino-KDMs are the descendants of Sabah's ethnic minority, the aborigines who intermarried with the Chinese. They make up majority of Chinese primary school nowadays and learn Mandarin as a first language without discrimination compared to the Mandarin native speaker. Phonologically, short-l...