For years, a number of speech scientists tried to reveal the mechanism of speech production based on observed acoustic signals and/or articulatory movements, and proposed a number of theories on the mechanism of speech production. However, most of them ignored the intermidate process which were important for the understanding of speech poduction - the motor commands and the activities of the central neural system. It is because both of them are difficult to be observed directly. This causes a gap between the linguistic representation and the corresponding physical observation in those...
For years, a number of speech scientists tried to reveal the mechanism of speech production based on observed acoustic signals and/or articulatory mov...
China's rapid socioeconomic transformation of the past twenty years has led to dramatic changes in its judicial system and legal practices. As China becomes more powerful on the world stage, the global community has dedicated more resources and attention to understanding the country's evolving democratization, and policymakers have identified the development of civil liberties and long-term legal reforms as crucial for the nation's acceptance as a global partner. Modern Chinese Legal Reform is designed as a legal and political research tool to help English-speaking scholars interpret the many...
China's rapid socioeconomic transformation of the past twenty years has led to dramatic changes in its judicial system and legal practices. As China b...
Complaint systems have existed in China and, indeed, throughout the world for many years. In 2004, there was a debate in the People s Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters and Visits System ("xinfang zhidu"), designed to allow people with complaints to register them with the upper levels of the government. Claims that it should be abolished in order for the judicial system to become more independent from the political and administrative systems were met with fierce opposition by those who felt that the Letters and Visits system had deep roots in the PRC political system and that it...
Complaint systems have existed in China and, indeed, throughout the world for many years. In 2004, there was a debate in the People s Republic of C...
