jyu5 liu2語料语料
Jyutpingjyu5 liu2
Yaleyúh líu
Definition
Linguistic data; spoken or written language records used for study and analysis.
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How it's used
Primarily used in academic or technical contexts, this term refers specifically to raw language samples used for linguistic research. It is rarely heard in casual daily conversation unless the speaker is a student or professional working in linguistics or computational language processing. It is almost always paired with the suffix 庫 to form 語料庫 when referring to a structured database.
Examples
It is very hard to find this kind of linguistic data.
Have you finished analyzing the linguistic data yet?
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Grammar guides
- QuestionsFrom yes or no questions to asking who, what, where, and when. The patterns you need to ask questions naturally in Cantonese.
- ClassifiersCantonese puts a classifier between a number and a noun, and a bare classifier on its own can mean the. Learn the common ones and how to use them.
- ComparisonsHow to say bigger than, the most, the same as, and not as good as. Cantonese uses 過 where Mandarin uses 比, and that catches a lot of learners out.
