Putonghua vs. minority languages: distribution of language laws, regulations, and documents in mainland China
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using a database containing Chinese language laws, regulations, and documents from 1986 to 2019, this study investigates the distribution of Putonghua and minority language policies in mainland China. It is found that: (i) in terms of the hierarchy of law, there are five levels of policies in China, with the Constitution and language laws as guidelines and local regulations dominant in quantity; (ii) in terms of the temporal dimension, while Putonghua policy has always been stressed, particularly serving economic growth in the last five years, the emphasis on Putonghua and attention to minority languages vary over time, while minority languages are treated as linguistic resources and their ongoing use and development may be overlooked; and (iii) in terms of provincial regions, while Putonghua is officially designated as a main language, ethnic minority areas differ in their partial language autonomy and adopt quite different language policies.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it