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Analysing Chinese Sentence-Final Particles Using Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese Dr Chris Shei Centre for Applied Language Studies The University of Wales Swansea c-c.shei@swansea.ac.uk Introduction In this article, I first use a discourse analysis model to explain the functions of Chinese sentence final particles (henceforth SFPs) based on a small spoken corpus which I collected back in the late 1980s. Then I refer to a large corpus, the Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese (five million words), which is freely available online through a Web-based query