My Research on Right Dislocation

The following is a small collection of audio/video clips of spontaneous Cantonese speech containing dislocation sentences. They are taken from programs on MyRadio, OurRadio and HK GreenRadio.

Why? I wrote my Master theses (CUHK, UCLA) on the Right Dislocation (which I also called Dislocation Focus Construction). When I talked to people about it, people are sometimes skeptical about the naturalness of the sentences. So I collected these right dislocation sentences to show how natural they are in spontaneous conversation.

Reference

Cheung, Lawrence Y.-L. (2009) "Dislocation focus construction in Chinese." Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 18(3): 197-232. [DOI: 10.1007/s10831-009-9046-z] ()

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	Utterance	Sound Clip
1	全部都不歡而散o既，幾個題目都講到。
2	三成囉，得番。
3	呢個共產黨呢o架嘛，又係。
4	千祈唔好去頂爛市呀，叫啲大學生。
5	因為我要培訓o架嘛，其實係。
6	香港鞋業中心嚟o架嘛，以前。
7	睇咗三次醫生o架喇，我太太都。
8	我而家都申請做佢文膽o架嘛，因爲。
9	(i) 佢成日講埋嗰啲阿媽係女人嗰啲嘢嚟o架嘛，好多時都。 ... (ii) 啫係佢成日同自己相反o架嘛，有時候講啲嘢會。
10	成日都講錯嘢o架嘛，我哋都。
11	俾把刀佢嘞，不如。
12	佢要扶植百度吖嘛，而家係。
13	點解博士講親呢啲嘢都係估唔到嘅呢，搞到人哋？
14	其實今次呢，呢個醫療改革方案呢，嘩，真係好險喎，過得。
15	Complicate啲o架嘛，應該啲test。
16	一、兩蚊之嘛，根本。
17	但係佢焗唔死個喎，真係可以。
18	滯後o架嘛，永遠都係，係咪先，股票？
19	你做 cameraman 囉，嗰陣時咪。
20	唔係佢就啫係降温囉，將件事。
21	好悶o架，呢個世界咁樣會。
22	白癡囉，咪。

Last Updated: 2015/07/23