Cantonese sentence-final particles

Language Log 2017-03-24

Summary:

Even if you don't know any Cantonese but listen carefully to people speaking it, you probably can tell that it has an abundance of particles.  For speakers of Mandarin who do not understand Cantonese, the proliferation of particles, especially in utterance final position, is conspicuous.  Non-speakers of Cantonese, confronted by all these aa3, ge3, gaa3, […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31664

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Tags:

grammar

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

03/24/2017, 10:38

Date published:

03/23/2017, 23:01