23.2307, FYI: New Language Resources for Research on Cantonese

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Subject: 23.2307, FYI: New Language Resources for Research on Cantonese

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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:47:11
From: Andy Chin [hkseattle at gmail.com]
Subject: New Language Resources for Research on Cantonese

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The Research Centre on Linguistics and Language Information 
Sciences (http://www.rclis.ied.edu.hk) at the Hong Kong Institute of 
Education has recently released two new online Cantonese corpora.

1. A Linguistic Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese 
(http://hkcc.livac.org/)
The construction of this corpus aims to supply new and authentic 
natural language data for studying the historical development of 
Cantonese in the last 50 years. 21 selected Cantonese movies 
produced between 1950 and 1960 were transcribed (in Chinese 
characters). Users can search the corpus with Chinese characters or 
words, Cantonese pronunciations as well as other attributes, such as 
production years of movies, genders and names of speakers.

2. Cantonese Dialogues (1850) Online Version 
(http://www.livac.org/hobson/)
The Cantonese Dialogues, compiled by Dr. Benjamin Hobson (1816-
1873) in 1850, is an introductory text on Cantonese produced for 
missionaries working in Southern China, and is in an interesting 
didactic format, which is also useful for research into pragmatics. It 
contains a wide range of topics associated with Chinese culture, 
religion, and social life, such as religious rituals, spirits and demons, 
language of China, education system of China, Chinese government, 
provincial government, medical profession, marriage, and funeral 
rituals. 
    
In addition to linguistic research, these two corpora are also useful for 
studying the language and culture of the periods concerned, and the 
relationship between them. Other than Mandarin, Cantonese is a 
dialect with rare authentic colloquial materials back for nearly 200 
years. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Yue (yue)





 






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