Manuscript (to appear in Xiao, Z. and McEnery A. Corpus-based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese).
Major corpus resources used: English - written: FLOB, spoken - the demographically sampled component of the BNC; Chinese - written: LCMC, spoken - LDC Callhome Mandarin Transcripts.
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