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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of the Foot Types and Structures of Chinese Four-Syllable Abbreviations
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 ambi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Three Registers behind two Characters: an Analysis of the Words’ Formation and their Registers
Three Registers behind two characters, or Two-Character-Three-Register, is a special phenomenon in Chinese word formation, which mainly means that on the premise that a dissyllabic verb consists of two monosyl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Structural and Prosodic Analysis of Trisyllabic New Words
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 ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Study on the Interactive Relationships Between the Formation of Three-Syllable Abbreviations and the Prosody
Most Chinese abbreviations consist of two syllables, but in certain cases, they are composed of three syllables in the form of super-prosody. On the basis of how to make up three-syllable abbreviations, this p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Interaction Between the Structure and the Prosody of Chinese 1 + 3 Idioms
Most four-syllable Chinese idioms are in the structure of first two syllables sharing inter-relationship and the other two syllables sharing idiomatic structural interaction (thereafter, 2 + 2 structure), whil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Embedded Compounding Monosyllabic Morphemes: A Perspective from the Lexical Study and TCFL
Many modern Chinese words inherited from the classical Chinese. Therefore, vocabularies used in written Chinese are different from those used in modern Chinese. In written Chinese, an embedded compounding mono...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Verbal Monosyllabic-Disyllabic Synonyms
Chinese verbal synonyms, mainly verbal monosyllabic and disyllabic synonyms (hereafter, verbal monosyllabic-disyllabic synonyms), vary in their semantic and pragmatic performances. However, a systematic resear...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Acronyms in Chinese: A Prosodic Perspective
Acronym is one way to create new words on the basis of existing expressions, but it is required to meet the codes of a language and its natural rhythm. In Chinese, disyllable is the best unit in the prosodic m...
