Ba's Goldilocks Force: Mandarin Sentence-final Particle -ba as an Optimal Preference Marker

SSRN Electronic Journal 2026 Preprint Open access

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Authors: Caichuang Zhang, Xuping Li
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5999410
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Syntax Semantics Linguistic Variation Categorization perception and language Phonetics and Phonology Research

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SSRN Electronic Journal
Publication date
1 January 2026
Document type
Preprint