Prosodic disambiguation of the Mandarin discourse marker Fanzheng (“anyway”): A corpus-based study of functional asymmetry at utterance peripheries

This study investigates the prosody-pragmatics interface of the Mandarin Chinese discourse marker (DM) fanzheng in spontaneous conversation, focusing on how prosodic features contribute to its functional differentiation at the left and right peripheries of utterances. Using data from the CABank Mand...

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Published in:	Journal of pragmatics Vol. 245; pp. 84 - 100
Main Authors:	Shan, Yi, Chu, Weiwei
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier B.V 01.08.2025
Subjects:	Discourse marker Fanzheng Functional asymmetry Left and right periphery Prosody-pragmatics interface Prosody-pragmatics interface Left and right periphery Discourse marker Functional asymmetry Fanzheng
ISSN:	0378-2166
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