A Corpus-based Analysis of Prosodic Pauses in bă, gěi and ràng Constructions in Taiwan Mandarin

Chihkai Lin
2021 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation  
This paper investigates prosodic pauses in bă, gěi, and ràng constructions in Taiwan Mandarin and adopts a corpus-based approach by collecting spoken data from an online corpus, NCCU Corpus of Spoken Taiwan Mandarin. The results show that prosodic pauses are not preferred before and after the bă, gěi, and ràng words in the three constructions. However, whenever there is a pause, the left edge of the bă, gěi, and ràng words is preferable to the right edge.
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