scholarly journals Guangdong Residents’ Perceptions of Chinese Dialects: A Pilot Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuying Ou
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Perceptual Dialectology ◽  
Chinese Dialects ◽  
Economic Influence

Perceptual dialectology (PD) is branch of sociolinguistics which investigates ordinary people’s (non-linguists) perceptions about different dialects in the language community they are living in. Most of the PD research was implemented in Europe or America, with little attention devoted to China, a country with many kinds of dialects. Applying Preston’s (1981) tool for PD studies: draw-a-map task, this research analyzed dialect maps drawn from 13 respondents, who were college students from Guangdong province, China. It aimed to find out how Guangdong residents perceive Chinese dialects. There are three major findings: (1) respondents used provincial boundaries to differentiate dialect areas but did not agree on their distribution; (2) Yue dialect and Wu dialect were thought to be more pleasant; (3) respondents were concerned about economic influence on dialects and dialect protection.

Impact of a sleep course on sleep, mood and anxiety symptoms in college students: A pilot study

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Argelinda Baroni ◽  
Jean-Marie Bruzzese ◽  
Christina A. Di Bartolo ◽  
Adam Ciarleglio ◽  
Jess P. Shatkin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms

scholarly journals A Study on a Group of Grammatical Features across Western Yue Dialects: Perspectives from Contact-induced Grammaticalization and Semantic Map Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Lin Huayong ◽  
Wu Xueyu ◽  
Liu Zhiling
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Semantic Map ◽  
Chinese Dialects ◽  
Grammatical Change ◽  
Linguistic Basis ◽  
Chinese Linguistics

The theory of contact-induced grammaticalization has been proposed to examine language contact and grammatical change, and was introduced into Chinese linguistic circles over 10 years ago. It contributes to a series of developments and breakthroughs in the domain of contact between Chinese and other languages as well as contact among Chinese dialects. Recent approaches to Chinese linguistics combine the theory with Semantic Map Model. In this paper, we focus on the Chinese linguistic studies benefitting from the theory and discuss a group of regional grammatical features which have provided the linguistic basis for cultural regionalization in Guangdong Province.

scholarly journals Improving Understanding about Social Influences on Food Choices in College Students: A Pilot Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey H. Basch ◽  
Michele Grodner ◽  
Lindsay Prewitt
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Healthy Choice ◽  
Health Course ◽  
The Impact

<p>The impact of social influences on food choices in college settings is of great importance because students are vulnerable to new forming identities at this time. The purpose of this pilot study is to determine the degree to which social influences impact food choices in a sample of college students. A 22-item survey instrument was created to determine the extent to which students have experienced being influenced by others when making food related purchasing decisions. A total of 257 out of a 323 students invited (80% response rate) in 11 sections of a personal health course responded to the survey. The overwhelming majority of respondents were reportedly comfortable ordering whatever they wanted when in the presence of their friends (n=249; 97%). Students were more likely to feel pressure to make a healthy choice than an unhealthy choice if everyone else was (45.1% vs. 31.5%), but fewer felt this way when asked specifically if their friends were ordering (28.4% vs. 21%). Social influences surrounding food choices are a topic that has gained momentum recently, however more research needs to be conducted to determine the reasons why social influences affect certain college students especially in comparing healthy versus unhealthy food choices.</p>

Psychiatrically Hospitalized College Students: A Pilot Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Rosecan ◽  
Richard Goldberg ◽  
Thomas Wise
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Psychiatrically Hospitalized

Pitch strength and annoyance of acoustic analogs of flutter echo - a pilot study

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (4) ◽  
pp. 2145-2156
Author(s):  
Anne Balant ◽  
Heather Lai ◽  
Vayda M. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Scaling Method ◽  
Short Pulses ◽  
Pulse Trains ◽  
Pitch Matching ◽  
Category Scaling

The impetus for this pilot study was the observation of flutter echoes on the aisle of a church with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. When source and receiver height were comparable, the flutter echoes consisted of a 39-msec repeating pattern of three short pulses that persisted for reverberation times of up to 5 sec. The disruptive quality of these echoes perceptually was striking. It was hypothesized that the perception of a sequence of rapidly alternating periodicity pitches might be the source of this disruptive quality. A pilot study was conducted to assess the perceived pitch, pitch strength, and annoyance of isochronous and anisochronous synthetic pulse trains involving up to three different inter-pulse intervals per pattern. Intervals of the anisochronous pulse trains were controlled to create harmonic and inharmonic relationships among the intervals, which ranged from 5-20 msec. Twelve adult college students participated in the study remotely via videoconferencing due to social distancing requirements. A modified category scaling method was used. Participants positioned a slider on a graphical user interface to reflect their ratings of pitch strength and annoyance and used a slider to adjust the frequency of a reference tone for pitch matching. Results and implications for further research will be presented.

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