Chinese. Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese

Chan, Marjorie K. M.

doi:10.1075/impact.10.08cha

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“…For example, the addition of / mae/ at the end of an utterance changes the mode from declarative to interrogative in Cantonese (among other dialects of Chinese, Chao 1968;Matthews and Yip 1994). In other contexts, critical attitudes such as sarcasm can be marked by specific particles in Cantonese (Chan 2002;Matthews and Yip 1994), although these particles were not present at the ends of the Cantonese utterances in our study. Although particles are not compulsory in most contexts in which they occur (as prosodic features do nonetheless perform prominent signalling functions, Fok 1974;Vance 1976), these may have been expected by Cantonese listeners in many instances and their absence may have influenced the data in some manner.…”

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Recognizing sarcasm without language

Cheang,

Pell

2011

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The goal of the present research was to determine whether certain speaker intentions conveyed through prosody in an unfamiliar language can be accurately recognized. English and Cantonese utterances expressing sarcasm, sincerity, humorous irony, or neutrality through prosody were presented to English and Cantonese listeners unfamiliar with the other language. Listeners identified the communicative intent of utterances in both languages in a crossed design. Participants successfully identified sarcasm spoken in their native language but identified sarcasm at near-chance levels in the unfamiliar language. Both groups were relatively more successful at recognizing the other attitudes when listening to the unfamiliar language (in addition to the native language). Our data suggest that while sarcastic utterances in Cantonese and English share certain acoustic features, these cues are insufficient to recognize sarcasm between languages; rather, this ability depends on (native) language experience.

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Recognizing sarcasm without language

Cheang,

Pell

2011

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“…The connection with a high emotive value is prominent in this use, though the link with the delimitation semantics seems to have been lost. Several sources mention that zek1 is mainly used by female speakers (Chan, 2002; see also Law, 1990:196;Cheung, 1972:181-182).…”

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The dissection and structural mapping of Cantonese sentence final particles

Sybesma

2007

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“…With the typological feature of lexical tones, it has been suggested that tone and intonation are probably mutually exclusive in the past (e.g., Pike, 1945;1948). However, many more recent researchers have claimed that Cantonese speakers exploit "intonation" at the sentence-level to convey different intentions including ironic sense such that lexical-tones are carried on the overall intonation contour of an utterance (e.g., Chan, 2001;Yip, 2002). Chao (1968) used the well-known analogy of "small ripples riding on larger waves" (p.39) to describe the relationship between syllable-level lexical-tone and intonation in an utterance in Chinese.…”

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“…Cantonese has approximately 30 forms of SFPs in everyday speech (Kwok, 1984). They exist individually or in clusters of two or three in sentence-final-position (Chan, 2001). Luke (1990) estimated that SFPs were found in continuous talk on average every 1.5 seconds demonstrating their high prevalence daily speech.…”

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Role of sentence-final particles and prosody in irony comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders

Law

Lam

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Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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English-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are less capable of using prosodic cues such as intonation for irony comprehension. Prosodic cues, in particular intonation, in Cantonese are relatively restricted while sentence-final particles (SFPs) may be used for this pragmatic function. This study investigated the use of prosodic cues and SFPs in irony comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without ASD. Thirteen children with ASD (8;3-12;9) were language-matched with 13 typically developing (TD) peers. By manipulating prosodic cues and SFPs, 16 stories with an ironic remark were constructed. Participants had to judge the speaker's belief and intention. Both groups performed similarly well in judging the speaker's belief. For the speaker's intention, the TD group relied more on SFPs. The ASD group performed significantly poorer and did not rely on either cue. SFPs may play a salient role in Cantonese irony comprehension. The differences between the two groups were discussed by considering the literature on theory of mind.

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Chinese. Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese

Cited by 11 publications

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Recognizing sarcasm without language

Recognizing sarcasm without language

The dissection and structural mapping of Cantonese sentence final particles

Role of sentence-final particles and prosody in irony comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders

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