Investigating Non-Sentential Utterances in a Spoken Chinese Corpus

Kwong-Cheong Wong (1) , Jonathan Ginzburg (2, 1)

1 CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus
2 LabEx EFL - LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics

This paper describes a preliminary investigation into Chinese non-sentential utterances (NSUs) in a corpus of spoken Mandarin. It presents, with examples, a corpus-based taxonomy of Chinese NSUs. This taxonomy builds on the one by Fernández and Ginzburg for English NSUs in the British National Corpus (BNC) [1]. Partly due to the distinctiveness of spoken Chinese, eight new classes are added and their reasons for addition are explained. The paper concludes with discussions for future work.

Mots clés: -Dialogue; Spoken Chinese; Non-sentential utterances; Corpus analysis

Domaines: Linguistique

Kwong-Cheong Wong, Jonathan Ginzburg. Investigating Non-Sentential Utterances in a Spoken Chinese Corpus. PACLING 2013, 2013, Tokyo, Japan. ⟨hal-01138030⟩