PHOENIX - Parents of students enrolled in a special 'Mandarin Immersion Program' offered by the Cave Creek Unified School District are not happy, as the program is expected to get cut by the district ...

Ethnic Mongolians staged protests in northern China this week over Beijing’s new policy to gradually replace their native language with Mandarin in several school subjects. The policy will affect ...

Mandarin Chinese and Spanish are among the most widely spoken languages in the world. And now those global numbers will tick up a bit in Little Rock. The newly redesigned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Chinese President Xi Jinping claps during the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5. Chinese President Xi Jinping claps during the ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

This article extends Optimality Theoretic studies to the research on second language tone phonology. Specifically, this work analyses the acquisition of identical tone sequences in Mandarin Chinese by ...