Syllable contractions in a Mandarin conversational dialogue corpus

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-83

  Tseng, Shu Chuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mandarin Chinese; Spoken language corpora; Spontaneous speech; Syllable contractions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248710603     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.1.04tse     Document Type: Article

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