Chaoju Tang

Biographic Data

ID3845196
NAMEChaoju Tang
GIVEN NAMESChaoju
FAMILY NAMETang
SIGNATURETANG C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China
ORCID0009-0001-5181-3322
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Chinese “Dialects” and European “Languages

    Open AccessChaoju Tang, Vincent J Van Heuven et al.ARTICLELanguages2025References: 30

    In this article, we tested some specific claims made in the literature on relative distances among European languages and among Chinese dialects, suggesting that some language varieties within the Sinitic family traditionally called dialects are, in fact, more linguistically distant from one another than some European varieties that are traditionally called languages. More generally, we examined whether distances among varieties within and across…

  • Is Swedish more beautiful than Danish? Matched guise investigations with unknown languages

    Open AccessNanna Haug Hilton, Charlotte Gooskens et al.ARTICLENordic Journal of Linguistics2022

    Are some languages universally seen as beautiful? And if so, what are the linguistic traits that make some languages sound more pleasing than others? This paper addresses these two questions. We do so with results from two listener experiments that use speech samples from a bilingual Danish–Swedish speaker in a matched guise test, where the listeners are ‘previously unexposed’ students from central China. Our results indicate that listeners from …

  • Predicting mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects from multiple objective linguistic distance measures

    Open AccessChaoju Tang, Vincent J Van HeuvenARTICLELinguistics2015Cited by: 3

    This paper predicts the mutual intelligibility of 15 Chinese dialects from multiple objective distance measures. Empirical mutual intelligibility measures were obtained from functional intelligibility tests at the sentence level from 15 listeners for each of 15 Chinese dialects. We computed various proximity measures on the basis of shared phonemes and tones in the sound inventories of the 15 dialects. Next, Levenshtein (string-edit) distance mea…

  • Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects experimentally tested

    Open AccessChaoju Tang, Vincent J Van HeuvenARTICLELingua2009Cited by: 25References: 11

  • Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects tested functionally

    Open AccessChaoju Tang, Vincent J Van HeuvenARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2008

    Chinese dialectologists agree that there is a primary split in Sinitic dialects into a Mandarin branch and a Southern (non-Mandarin) branch, each comprising a number of (sub)groups. In this paper we will adopt the taxonomy proposed by the authoritative Language Atlas of China. We target 15 dialects, which are related as

  • Mutual intelligibility and similarity of Chinese dialects

    Open AccessChaoju Tang, Vincent J Van HeuvenARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2007

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