This paper describes details of NTOU Chinese spelling check system in SIGHAN-8 Bakeoff. Besides the basic architecture of the previous system participating in last two CSC tasks, three new preference rules were proposed to deal with Simplified Chinese characters, variants, sentence-final particles, and DE-particles. A new sentence likelihood function was proposed based on frequencies of space-r...

This study aims to investigate how absence of particles is compensated by prosody. The current study focuses on topic particle -un/-nun, subject particle -i/-ka, object particle -ul/-lul, and genitive particle -uy in Korean. In order to figure it out, an experiment was carried out, a sentence reading task, with thirty native speakers of Korean. The result indicates that (i) when the particle is...

In this paper I document the complex interactions between the Mandarin sentence-final only item éryǐ and the focus marker shì. Following work on Chinese Sentence-Final Particles (SFP), éryǐ syntactically is in the CPdomain and thus should scope above TP-level operators such as negation, and this is indeed normally the case. However, the introduction of the focus marker shì can force the sentenc...

In this paper I document the complex interactions between the Mandarin sentence-final only item éryǐ and the focus marker shì. Following work on Chinese Sentence-Final Particles (SFP), éryǐ syntactically is in the CPdomain and thus should scope above TP-level operators such as negation, and this is indeed normally the case. However, the introduction of the focus marker shì can force the sentenc...

The chapter analyzes the system of focus-sensitive particles in Vietnamese. EVEN/ ALSO/ONLY foci are discussed across syntactic categories, and Vietnamese is found to organize its system of focus-sensitive particles along three dimensions of classification: (i) EVEN vs. ALSO vs. ONLY; (ii) particles c-commanding foci vs. particles c-commanding backgrounds; (iii) adverbial focus-sensitive partic...

This paper argues that the linguistic forms of intonation that have scope over the whole sentence are morphemic, and should therefore be classified as suprasegmental sentence particles. In defense of this hypothesis, a range of studies are reviewed which argue that intonation expresses discourse meanings (or has grammatical functions), and that these meanings (or functions) are comparable to th...

While the use of sentence-final discourse particles (SFPs) is typically linked to specific interactional or social functions, their realization is also associated with particular positional and intonational requirements. This raises the question of whether the use of SFPs may be partly driven by the phonological characteristics of sentence-final contexts. In [1], we showed that Singapore Englis...