A corpus-based analysis of the gendered use of Cantonese sentence final particles

Gregoire Adalbert WINTERSTEIN; Yee King Regine LAI; Pei Sui Zoe LUK; Eric MCCREADY

A corpus-based analysis of the gendered use of Cantonese sentence final particles

Gregoire Adalbert WINTERSTEIN
, Yee King Regine LAI
, Pei Sui Zoe LUK
, Eric MCCREADY

Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to characterize the gendered usage of sentence final particles (SFP) by native Cantonese speakers. Two spoken corpora of Cantonese are chosen. One is the conversation part of the HKCanCorp (Luke & Wong, 2015) which contains recordings of conversations between close ones (friends, family colleagues), the other are the Hansard transcripts of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) which we annotated by manually adding all occurrences of SFP. Both corpora give indications about the speakers’ gender which allows the study of the variation between masculine and feminine speakers.
Results show gender distinctions in the use of SFPs, which we trace back to attributed epistemic authority. Copyright © 2018 NWAV-AP5.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018
Event	NWAV Asia Pacific 5 (NWAV-AP5): Language contact and variation - University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Duration: 01 Feb 2018 → 03 Feb 2018

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Conference	NWAV Asia Pacific 5 (NWAV-AP5): Language contact and variation
Abbreviated title	NWAV-AP5
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	01/02/18 → 03/02/18

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A corpus-based analysis of the gendered use of Cantonese sentence final particles

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