// ↗ CAN i help you //: The use of rise and rise-fall tones in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-107

  Cheng, Winnie ^a   Warren, Martin ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business discourses; Conversations; Discourse intonation; Hong Kong Chinese; Native English speakers; Scademic supervisions; Speaker dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248692817     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.1.05che     Document Type: Article

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