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This paper investigates the foot types and structural features of Chinese four-syllable abbreviations. Results show that: first, whether for the need of complexity and richness of ideogram or for avoiding ambiguity, these abbreviated forms are an essential and meaningful part of modern Chinese abbreviations; second, most of the existing forms tend to present 2 + 2 balanced prosodic structure, nominal attribute in part of speech. In addition, there also exists the possibility of abbreviation further to less than four syllables under some specific conditions.
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Ying, W., Luo, J. (2020). Analysis of the Foot Types and Structures of Chinese Four-Syllable Abbreviations. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_80
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