A Corpus-Based Analysis of Mixed Code in Hong Kong Speech

J. Lee

DOI:10.1109/IALP.2012.10

Corpus ID: 16210378

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Mixed Code in Hong Kong Speech

@article{Lee2012ACA,
  title={A Corpus-Based Analysis of Mixed Code in Hong Kong Speech},
  author={J. Lee},
  journal={2012 International Conference on Asian Language Processing},
  year={2012},
  pages={165-168}
}

J. Lee

Published 2012

Computer Science

2012 International Conference on Asian Language Processing

We present a corpus-based analysis of the use of mixed code in Hong Kong speech. From transcriptions of Cantonese television programs, we identify English words embedded within Cantonese utterances, and investigate the motivations for such code-switching. Among the many motivations observed in previous research, we found that four alone account for more than 95% of the use of English words in our speech data across genres, genders, and age groups. We performed analyses over more than 60 hours… CONTINUE READING

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