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On the Case of Zheyangzi in Mandarin Words of Taiwan and Mainland China

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As a mandarin word, Zheyangzi has been widely used in the accent of Taiwan, where the usages and part of meanings in this word are the same as its application in mainland China, but there can be some disparities on the features of Zheyangzi through comparison between two areas. This paper will illustrate these disparities by analyzing corpus and explain the reasons behind the features shared by this word.

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LU, X. (2016). On the Case of Zheyangzi in Mandarin Words of Taiwan and Mainland China. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_59

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