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Using Chinese pre-nominal structural particle de for self-repair in CFL

classroom
Exerpt 1 (three students are talking about cultural shock)

+GZ down-----------
1 M: juede(1.2) +qishi(.) zhe shi(.) changchang tingdao(0.5)
think in fact this be often hear
I think, in fact, this is something often heard of

+GZ down------------------------------------------
2 +dan:shi: anzhao wo de guandian laishuo >wo juede<
but according I DE opinion say I think
But, according to my opinion, I think

+GZ>elsewhere
3 >↑xiangdao<(0.5) zhei yi dian de shihou +wo jiushi:(.)
think of this one point DE time I just

4 ↑xiangdao:(.) ahh: you mei you ting guo(.) nanfangren


think ahh have N have hear ASP southerner
When I think of this thing, I just think of, ah, have you heard of southerner will

+GZ up R>L
5 ↓shi:(0.8) +hui(1.2) mei you shenme tamen bu hui chi de dongxi
be will N have what they N will eat DE thing
There is nothing they won’t eat.

+nod, smile
6 W: Oh, +wo [you ting guo
oh I have hear ASP
Oh, I heard of that

7 M: ((nodding))

+nod
8 D: [+um um wo-
um um I
Um um, I
9 M: e bifangshuo(.) wo:men: meiguoren ↓bu tai xiguan:(.) chi::
e for example we American N too used to eat
Uh, for example, we Americans are not quite used to eat

+RH SPV
10 ah::(.) +jijiao(0.5) huozhe(.) zhe: leisi
ah chicken feet or this similar

11 de:(0.5) de:(0.5) dongxi


DE DE thing
Uh, chicken feet, or this kind of things.
Exerpt 2 (four students are discussing the definition of artificial intelligence)
+GZ down
1 K: suoyi shi women yinggai: taolun le:(.) +zhe ge(.)
so be we should discuss ASP this C

2 AI shi sheme dui ma?


AI be what right Q
So, we should discuss what is AI right?

3 K: ((GZ>L))

4 L: ºduiº (1.0) ºUmº(.) wo::men:: keyi shuo::: e(.)


right um we can say e

5 l-yi ge jiandan de:(.) um yi[si shi=


one C simple DE um meaning be
Right, we can say an example just

+smile
6 K: [+ºduiº
right
Right

7 L: =um rengong zhineng jiu shi(.)


um artificial intelligence just be

8 ↑kaifa hou ↑zhixing rengong renwu


develop after execute artificial task
Um AI is a computer system that is developed to execute human task

+GZ R up
9 +de: jisuanji xitong.
DE computer system
+nod, GZ up L>R
10 K: +keyi(1.0) huozhe wo ↑xiang shuo:: umm: AI shi(0.5)
can or I want say um AI be
Yes, or I want to say, um, AI is

+raise eyebows
11 neng:gou: +zhixing tong↑chang xuyao
able execute normally need
A theory or development of the computer system

+LH SPV
12 renlei +zhineng de(.) ºdeº renwu
human intelligence DE DE task

+LH IF
13 +de jisuanji xitong de(.) lilun he kaifa de(.)
DE computer system DE theory and develop DE
that can execute tasks that normally need human intelligence

+LH SPU
14 +shi yiyang de(.) de yisi
be same DE DE meaning
It is the same meaning

15 L: ºum wo tongyiº
um I agree
Yeah, I agree
Appendix
Glossing conventions (revised from Wu, 2016)

ASP aspectual marker


C classifier
DE structural particle de for noun
N negator
NOM nominalizer de
Q question marker

Talk (adopted from Jefferson, 2004)


: elongation
word emphasized, stressed
>word< fasten speech
WORD higher volume
ºwordº lower volume
word- glottal stop, cut-off
h aspirated
(.) micro pause
(time) pause
[utterance] overlapping
, slightly rising intonation
? rising intonation
. falling intonation
↑ rising pitch
↓ falling pitch
* per unintelligible syllable
(()) ((transcriber’s note))
Embodied actions (adopted from Burch & Kasper, 2016)

H hand(s)
F finger
R right
L left
IF index finger
2Fs index and middle fingers
B both
3Fs index, middle, and ring fingers
GZ gaze
+ place where action begins, description of action
+ place where action begins in relation to talk
/ stroke or beat of gesture
--- holding gesture or gaze in place
PRD prone down (palm facing ground)
SPU supine up (palm facing up)
SPV supine vertical (palm facing in)

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