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Language, Linguistics Language, Modern MacDonald, William Lundelius, Jay Osborn 2011-05-07T13:56:17Z 2011-05-07T13:56:17Z 10000-01-01 1991 "Students frequently have difficulty in remembering tones of Chinese words accurately. Many textbooks use ""Pinyin,"" (the romanization system of mainland China) which uses superscript marks to indicate tones. Yuen Ren Chao (1964, p. 11) asserted that using spelling to indicate tone served as a more powerful tool for tone recall, and he consequently developed Gwoyeu Romatzyh (""G.R."") for instruction. G.R. has not enjoyed widespread popularity because of its complexity and its lack of correspondence to Pinyin. Therefore, I developed a hybrid romanization, ""TSP"" (Tonally Spelled Pinyin), which vastly simplifies the number of rules governing tonal spelling conventions and eases the inevitable transition to Pinyin. Research tracked two sections of Beginning Chinese, one using Pinyin, the second using TSP. Based on the three exams given throughout the semester, the TSP section performance averaged 86.9% while the Pinyin section's averaged 70.9%. A t test analysis indicated a significance beyond the 0.010 level." Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:56:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9136671.pdf: 4666123 bytes, checksum: ae00a4fdf4d05571af98222cb550b65f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:01:00Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:28:55-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9136671 (UMI)AAI9136671 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22931 eng Copyright 1991 Lundelius, Jay Osborn Education, Language and Literature The effectiveness of tonal spelling in learning Mandarin Chinese text Education Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.