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Example 20-155
My sabee proper price.
My
1sg
sabee
know
proper
proper
price.
price
I know the proper price.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Dier 1860
: 301
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Syllable onsets: Onsets at most moderately complex
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