Southern Min Post-verbal Negation

The Morphosyntax of Polish Verbal Negation: Towards an HPSG Account

Acquiring causatives in Taiwan Southern Min.

This case study is based on the longitudinal data of a girl (LYC, 1 ; 2-3 ; 3) acquiring Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) as her first language, and it aims to discover the overgeneralization pattern of children acquiring causatives in TSM. Among the three types of causative, the errors found in other languages are mostly with lexical causatives; however, in TSM, the errors occur with morphological an...

Distal Demonstrative Hitlo in Taiwanese Southern Min

This article investigates the use of distal demonstrative Hitlo in Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) from a discourse-pragmatic perspective. The analysis is based on a 5-hour corpus of spoken data, including daily conversations, radio interviews, TV drama series, and some random examples. A total of 172 tokens of Hitlos are identified in the data. They can be divided into six categories according to...

Exploring Boundary Tones in Taiwan Southern Min

This study explores boundary pitch movements in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) by investigating pitch variations of final particles. Based on annotation research on the pitch targets of final particles in a 117-minute spontaneous speech corpus, it is proposed that instead of viewing such pitch variations as lexical tones, these variations should be referred to as three types boundary pitch movements...

Frequency effects in Southern Min syllable contraction

Taiwan Southern Min syllable contraction, like many lenition processes, it is known to be influenced by lexical frequency. To explore the mechanism behind this influence, a shadowing experiment was run. The primary dependent measures were acoustic correlates of intersyllabic segment reduction and tonal merger. Independent measures included lexical frequency, production latency (as a measure of ...