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 | | All except 6 of our informants had migration experiences out of Puli either between age 16-18 for studying in senior high schools, working, continuing their further study in colleges in other cities, or for serving in the military services, which was only exclusive for male speakers, though. |
 | | At last, the study reveals our informants’ preferences for both male and female with Puli accent as their friends or partners, though the male speaker with the standard accent of Puli is more favored by the female subjects as a partner by a slight margin. |
 | | Therefore, when Taiwanese is widely spoken in Puli and is acting as the first language learned by the informants, the first instructors of the informants’ second language, Mandarin Chinese, play the major roles affecting the speakers with Puli accent or not. |
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