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The majority of Chinese new words are trisyllabic, which violates the disyllabic norm of Chinese vocabulary. This paper explores reasons underlying this phenomenon by studying the structure and prosody of the trisyllabic new words.
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Luo, J. (2016). A Structural and Prosodic Analysis of Trisyllabic New Words. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_12
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