According to research conducted by Huang Hsuan-fan in 1987, when mixed families chose a common family language, it was usually Mandarin (for instance, when a mainlander married a Taiwanese, the children would use Mandarin to speak to the parents).
根據黃宣范一九九○年的調查，這些通婚家庭對語言的選擇，通常以國語為主（例如大陸省籍與本省閩南省籍的通婚子女，通常以國語為家庭語言）。