Davies is peerless in Vivaldi, but the Idrîsî Ensemble's ancient Mediterranean chants steal the show in a magically immersive evening Iestyn Davies, Dunja Botić, FIGURE & Idrîsî Ensemble (Photo: ...

Phun-Bench evaluates phonological understanding in Chinese, across three dimensions: homophony, rhyme, and phonetic similarity. This repository contains the Phun-Bench datasets and evaluation code.

The Chinese Year of the Fire Horse has a new, unexpected mascot: Draco Malfoy. Associating the Harry Potter antagonist with China’s Year of the Fire Horse might seem odd or whimsical. But it has much ...

The role of phonological and orthographic processing and their time course during lexical processing and sentence reading remain controversial. By adopting a misspelled-characters disruption paradigm ...

There are many colourful and sometimes convoluted ways to describe musical features or characteristics. When a term uses one of the phonics in its description, we are usually attempting to describe ...

The two genres are, on the surface, very different from one another, and yet, the humanity and creativity that shines through across time and space speak to something else at play here... Jazz and ...

Music theory covers a bewildering array of considerations, elements, and aspects that surround this wonderful art. One of these elements is the concept of musical texture that as you might well ...

With the right computer program, proteins become pleasant music. There are many surprising analogies between proteins, the basic building blocks of life, and musical notation. These analogies can be ...

Dan xia, xi lan, yu he and luo shen－four different levels of red genealogy of the lychee-related colors. [Photo provided to China Daily] After completing the preliminary research work, the design team ...

Puns can be divisive: Some find them irresistible, some find them groan-worthy. And while newspaper readers may appreciate clever wordplay in a headline—say, “Big Rig Carrying Fruit Crashes on 210 ...

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