MIAMI - Zeledon2
Instances of mean

159REBI mean I've been there for two years .
  II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES I'veI.PRON.SUB.1S+HAVE.V.PRES beenbeen.V.PASTPART therethere.ADV forfor.PREP twotwo.NUM yearsyear.N.PL .
  
228REB+< I mean you'd have to be like right here for me to see you .
  II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES you'dyou.PRON.SUB.2SP+BE.V.COND havehave.V.2SP.PRES toto.PREP bebe.V.INFIN likelike.CONJ rightright.ADJ herehere.ADV forfor.PREP meme.PRON.OBJ.1S toto.PREP seesee.V.INFIN youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP .
  
525MATI mean they exaggerate stuff they say whatever they want .
  II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES theythey.PRON.SUB.3P exaggerateexaggerate.V.3P.PRES stuffstuff.SV.INFIN theythey.PRON.SUB.3P saysay.V.3P.PRES whateverwhatever.REL theythey.PRON.SUB.3P wantwant.V.3P.PRES .
  
642MAT+, it's [/] it's really subtle [?] it's [/] it's well it's not even subtle [?] I mean it's like in your face .
  it'sit.PRON.SUB.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES it'sit.PRON.SUB.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES reallyreal.ADJ+ADV subtlesubtle.ADJ it'sit.PRON.SUB.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES it'sit.PRON.SUB.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES wellwell.ADV it'sit.PRON.SUB.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES notnot.ADV eveneven.ADJ subtlesubtle.ADJ II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES it'sit.PRON.SUB.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES likelike.CONJ.[or].like.SV.INFIN inin.PREP youryour.ADJ.POSS.2SP faceface.N.SG .
  
652MATpolitical I mean everything .
  politicalpolitical.ADJ II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES everythingeverything.PRON .
  
658MATyou know what I mean ?
  youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP knowknow.V.2SP.PRES whatwhat.REL II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES ?
  
678MAThe is always trying to kill his mother I mean .
  hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S isis.V.3S.PRES alwaysalway.ADV+PV.[or].always.ADV tryingtry.SV.INFIN+ASV toto.PREP killkill.V.INFIN hishis.ADJ.POSS.M.3S mothermoth.N.SG+COMP.AG.[or].mother.N.SG II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES .
  
768MAT+< you know what I mean ?
  youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP knowknow.V.2SP.PRES whatwhat.REL II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES ?
  
780MAT+< do you know what I mean ?
  dodo.V.INFIN youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP knowknow.V.2SP.PRES whatwhat.REL II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES ?
  
826REBI mean the beaches are beautiful .
  II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES thethe.DET.DEF beachesbeach.N.PL areare.V.123P.PRES beautifulbeautiful.ADJ .
  
983REBand I mean it was my fault in the way that I allowed him to do that .
  andand.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S meanmean.V.1S.PRES itit.PRON.SUB.3S waswas.V.3S.PAST mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S faultfault.N.SG inin.PREP thethe.DET.DEF wayway.N.SG thatthat.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S allowedallow.V.PAST himhim.PRON.OBJ.M.3S toto.PREP dodo.V.INFIN thatthat.DEM.FAR .
  

Change language

Contact us

bilingualism@bangor.ac.uk

The corpora

The Siarad corpus
The Patagonia corpus
The Miami corpus

zeledon2: menu

Research Team

Collaborators

Publications

Bangor Autoglosser

Acknowledgements

The support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Welsh Government is gratefully acknowledged.



Copyright ©2010-13 ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor University
Media player by Jeroen Wijering. CSS by the Blueprint community.
544481