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Cantonese natural language processing in the transformers era: a survey and current challenges
Despite being spoken by a large population of speakers worldwide, Cantonese is under-resourced in terms of the data scale and diversity compared to...
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Force shift: a case study of Cantonese ho2 particle clusters
This paper investigates force shift, a phenomenon in which the canonical discourse conventions, or force, associated with a clause type can be...
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Valorizing Cantonese in the Linguistic Landscape: Mobility, Complexity and Unpredictability
Cantonese use on public signage in mainland China is largely discouraged by the national language policy, yet it is visible in the linguistic...
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On the syntax of rhetorical questions: evidence from Cantonese
In this paper, it is argued that sentences with sai2mat1 ‘needn’t’ in Cantonese are rhetorical questions and sai2mat1 ‘needn’t’ is a root modal that...
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The Expansion of Cantonese Over the Last Two Centuries
Cantonese is the representative variety of Yue Chinese. Since the end of the First Opium War (1839–1842), a large number of Cantonese people have...
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The Expansion of Cantonese Over the Last Two Centuries
Cantonese is the representative variety of Yue Chinese. Since the end of the First Opium War (1839–1842), a large number of Cantonese people have...
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Revisiting phonotactic repairs in Cantonese loanword phonology: it’s all about sC
Different factors have been claimed to affect the choice of repair on English words with ill-formed Cantonese phonotactics in Cantonese loanword...
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Localization and Globalization in Linguistic Landscape
In this chapter, we examine how the linguistic landscape in Hong Kong reflects globalization and localization. Globalization has led to the...
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Cartographic syntax of performative projections: evidence from Cantonese
It is argued in this paper that a sentence should consist of at least three layers, namely proposition, grounding, and response, which are formed by...
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Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation
This paper investigates an interaction between locality requirements and syntactic dependencies through the lens of hyperraising constructions in...
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Condolences in Cantonese and English: What People Say and Why
This study used the ethnopragmatics approach to examine the cultural-based knowledge that guides Cantonese and Anglo-English speakers when offering...
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Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese
Although there are similarities between the uses of the word dou in Mandarin and Cantonese, there are also striking differences that have rarely been...
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Parallel copying in dislocation copying: evidence from Cantonese
Cantonese exhibits dislocation copying, a phenomenon whereby some syntactic material in a canonical sentence is repeated after the sentence particle....
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Discussion
In Macao, the complex and multifaceted interactions between local, national, and global forces exert competing influences on Macao people’s attitudes...
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Speech Rhythm, Length of Residence and Language Experience: A Longitudinal Investigation
This study is an ongoing longitudinal investigation of second language (L2) speech rhythm in newly arrived immigrants. Seven Cantonese-first-language...
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Combining NSM Explications for Clusters of Cantonese Utterance Particles: laa3-wo3 and zaa3-wo3
Utterance particles expressing speakers’ attitudes, assumptions or feelings are indispensable in informal Hong Kong Cantonese. Everyday conversation...
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Chinese Languages and Malaysian English: Contact and Competition
The transference of features from Chinese languages is one of the more recognizable aspects of Malaysian English (MYE). This case study explores the...
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A Study of Macao Tertiary Students’ Attitudes Towards Language After the Handover
This book focuses on the attitudes of Macao tertiary students toward language after the handover. It shares the findings of a questionnaire survey...
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Identity and Investment in Chinese Language Learning: Perspectives from Dialect-Background Heritage Learners in New Zealand
Before the increase of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in the late 1990s, early Chinese settlers to New Zealand were primarily speakers of non-Mandarin...
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Asymmetries in doubling and Cyclic Linearization
This paper investigates asymmetries in doubling among verbs, objects and subjects in Cantonese. It is shown that each of these elements has a...
