Facilitation of transference: The case of monosyllabic salience in Hong Kong Cantonese

Li, David C. S.; Wong, Cathy S. P.; Leung, Wai Mun; Wong, Sophia

doi:10.1515/ling-2015-0037

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“…Table 2 shows the descriptive statistics for these fixation measurements of the two language varieties in each task. Our datasets show that monosyllabic words were more dominant in Cantonese than in Mandarin, especially for content words such as verbs and nouns, as shown in Figure 2; this tendency is in line with the monosyllabic salience observed in Cantonese (Li et al, 2016). nary (Lai and Winterstein, 2020) and the cncorpus word-frequency list), and the syllable number.…”

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Comparing and Predicting Eye-tracking Data of Mandarin and Cantonese

Li,

Peng,

Hsu

et al. 2023

Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023)

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Eye-tracking data in Chinese languages present unique challenges due to the non-alphabetic and unspaced nature of the Chinese writing systems. This paper introduces the first deeply-annotated joint Mandarin-Cantonese eye-tracking dataset, from which we achieve a unified eye-tracking prediction system for both language varieties. In addition to the commonly studied first fixation duration and the total fixation duration, this dataset also includes the second fixation duration, expressing fixation patterns that are more relevant to higher-level, structural processing.A basic comparison of the features and measurements in our dataset revealed variation between Mandarin and Cantonese on fixation patterns related to word class and word position. The test of feature usefulness suggested that traditional features are less powerful in predicting the second-pass fixation, to which the linear distance to root makes a leading contribution in Mandarin. In contrast, Cantonese eye-movement behavior relies more on word position and part of speech.

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Comparing and Predicting Eye-tracking Data of Mandarin and Cantonese

Li,

Peng,

Hsu

et al. 2023

Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023)

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“…np. Tyson 1993;Görlach 2001Görlach , 2002Hu 2004;Furiassi et al 2012;Li et al 2016;Imamura 2018), wyzwalający wspieraną obcym wpływem oraz coraz lepszą znajomością angielszczyzny kreatywność użytkowników języka zapożyczającego. Kombinacja tych dwóch czynników prowadzi do powstawania innowacji językowych niedających ująć się w skomponowane kilka dekad temu typologie zapożyczeń językowych.…”

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Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,

Burska,

Majdzińska-Koczorowicz

et al. 2021

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Tematyce języka, czasu i przestrzeni poświęcono w literaturze polskiej i światowej bardzo dużo uwagi, zwłaszcza w ujęciu interdyscyplinarnym. Prace zebrane w niniejszym tomie wskazują na różne, nierzadko bardzo metaforyczne, sposoby pojmowania czasu i przestrzeni w szerokiej perspektywie lingwistycznej. Poszczególne rozdziały koncentrują się na wybranych aspektach użycia języka w przestrzeni internetowej i multimedialnej, na języku w przestrzeni miejskiej i państwowej. Kolejne teksty analizują język w różnych perspektywach czasowych, związanych z ewolucją języka i kontaktami międzyjęzykowymi, a także badają relacje zachodzące pomiędzy językiem a pamięcią, przedstawiają uwarunkowania zmian językowych w procesie afazji, przyglądają się przestrzeni teoretycznej, w której uprawiane jest językoznawstwo, oraz proponują rozważania o charakterze ogólnohumanistycznym. Autorzy koncentrują się na badaniach poszczególnych interesujących zjawisk i jednostkowych przypadków, a rozważania teoretyczno-metodologiczne splatają się z analizami zagadnień bardziej praktycznych. W niektórych tekstach pojawia się nawiązanie do aktualnych wydarzeń i ograniczeń, ale także nowych możliwości spowodowanych pandemią.

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“…More recent lexical borrowings from English may not have standard Chinese characters yet [e.g., kei1-si2 (case)]; however, whether established or recent, English loanwords are mostly phonologically adapted to Cantonese [e.g., /s/ in bus becomes the onset of another syllable in 巴士/baa1-si2 (bus), as Cantonese does not allow a fricative in coda positionsee Bauer and Benedict, 1997 for more details], whereas English words that are not phonologically adapted have been treated as code-mixing/code-switching (Reynolds, 1985;Leung, 1987Leung, , 2001Chan, 1992Chan, , 1998Chan, , 2021. In addition to phonotactics, multisyllabic English words are often truncated in accordance with the typical word length of corresponding word classes in Cantonese (Luke and Lau, 2005;Li et al, 2016); that is, nouns are truncated to mono-syllabic or bi-syllabic words (e.g., physics becomes fi1; qualification becomes kwo1-li2) and verbs to mono-syllabic words (e.g., monitor becomes mon1). Apart from phonological Abbreviations: 1, first person pronoun; 2, second person pronoun; 3, third person pronoun; ASP, aspect marker; CL, classifier; COP, copular verb; COV, coverb; DEM, demonstrative; EMP, emphatic marker; EXIST, existential marker; FOC, focus marker; LOC, locative marker; LNK, linking particle; MOD, modal verb; NEG, negation marker; NOM, nominalizer; NUM, numeral; P, preposition/postposition; PL, plural marker; PRT, verbal particle; QUAN, quantifier; SFP, sentence-final particle.…”

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Constructional Borrowing From English in Hong Kong Cantonese

Chan

2022

Front. Commun.

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Previous research on Cantonese-English contact in Hong Kong has focused on lexical phenomena, primarily lexical borrowing and intra-sentential, single-word code-switching (or code-mixing). Although code-switching may also involve longer English phrases, the English elements are mostly inserted into Cantonese-framed sentences in accordance with the Matrix Language Frame/MLF Model. In other words, the syntax of Cantonese appears to be largely intact despite words or phrases drawn from English. This paper underscores that in fact English syntax can be melded more intricately with lexis from both Cantonese and English, thus defying the MLF Model; however, recurrent cases are limited to three constructions so far, namely, the which-relative, the English PP-postmodifier, and an [NP COP P NP] sequence with an English preposition. A re-examination of these three constructions reveals that, rather than linguistic economy, they are semantically and pragmatically motivated to convey some specific meaning. Moreover, all these constructions are lexico-syntactic in the sense that they prototypically contain an English word, namely, the relativizer which, an English noun and an English preposition, respectively. Accordingly, these cases can also be treated as code-switching, though structural borrowing better captures the fact that some English syntactic structure is transferred. In line with Construction Grammar, these constructions are better understood as constructional borrowing in which each construction as a whole—composed of not only words from Cantonese and English but also a syntactic structure—conveys specific meaning. As for why such cases of structural or constructional borrowing are limited or partial, this paper suggests that it is more due to a soft constraint that separates English and Cantonese grammars—Hong Kong speakers still tend to convey a sense that they speak Cantonese among themselves—although they draw on linguistic resources from English. In this light, the Borrowability Hierarchy may be recast as a continuum of language separation and fluidity, which offers a more nuanced view to translanguaging.

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Facilitation of transference: The case of monosyllabic salience in Hong Kong Cantonese

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Comparing and Predicting Eye-tracking Data of Mandarin and Cantonese

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