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where speakers transcend language boundaries between Cantonese and English for the purpose of meaning-making. Nevertheless, Hong
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in real-time language production. Revisiting an unpublished dataset of radio talk, this paper further illustrates a number of
sequences in which Cantonese speakers may “languagise” the code-switched words or expressions as “English”. It is concluded that,
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