Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Cantonese as
spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of …

This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed
for undergraduates and general readers. As a former British colony, Hong Kong used …

This paper introduces the South East Asia Mandarin–English corpus, a 63-h spontaneous
Mandarin–English code-switching transcribed speech corpus suitable for LVCSR and …

In this introductory chapter we are concerned with the following:(1) differences in how young
children learn to read Chinese in the world's major Chinese societies; and (2) some …

Why two languages might be better than one: Motivations of language mixing in Hong Kong
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This paper claims that lexical categories (V, N) and functional categories (D, I, C) behave
differently in bilingual code-switching: whereas functional heads always determine the order …

This paper describes the design and compilation of the CUMIX Cantonese-English code-
mixing speech corpus. Code-mixing is a common phenomenon in many bilingual societies …

An experiment was designed to test behavioural differences in the detection of deception
arising from investigative interviews conducted in either a first or second language. A two …

In this paper, we present an effective method to detect the language boundary (LB) in code-
switching utterances. The utterances are mainly produced in Cantonese, a commonly used …

Code-mixing is a common phenomenon in bilingual societies. It refers to the intra-sentential
switching of two different languages in a spoken utterance. This paper presents the first …