h u For practical reasons, during the summer we only focused on one specific dialect, the wu dialect(Shanghai Area), and the target language was Wu dialectal Chinese(WDC for short) 日 Why wu dialect? 8 Population: more than 70 million people use Wu dialect, the 2nd popular dialect in China: 8 Economy: one of the most advanced city in China- Shanghai s Wu dialect is a full-developed language The syntax of Wu dialect is very complex The vocabulary is even more larger than Mandarin Many literature masterpiece were influenced by wu dialect (in history WU Mandarin Cantonese Phoneme# 50 37 <33 GoalMotivation Goal Knowledge Data Collection Workshop Conclusion I SDPBMM Conclusion II 8 ❑ For practical reasons, during the summer we only focused on one specific dialect, the Wu dialect (Shanghai Area), and the target language was Wu dialectal Chinese (WDC for short); ❑ Why Wu dialect? ❖ Population: more than 70 million people use WU dialect, the 2nd popular dialect in China; ❖ Economy: one of the most advanced city in China – Shanghai ❖ Wu dialect is a full-developed language ▪ The syntax of Wu dialect is very complex; ▪ The vocabulary is even more larger than Mandarin; ▪ Many literature masterpiece were influenced by WU dialect (in history). WU Mandarin Cantonese Phoneme# 50 37 <33