Prosodic Syntax in Chinese

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese
Author: Feng Shengli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Chinese language
ISBN: 9781138578913

This book has shown that prosody has played a crucial role in triggering the many changes in the diachronic development of Chinese. It is claimed that prosody can be an important factor in triggering, balancing and finally terminating changes in the syntactic evolution of Chinese.

Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese

Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese
Author: Shengli Feng
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1315392763

It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language. Although a disyllabic prosodic unit of some sort has long been considered by many to be at play in Chinese grammar, the intuition is not always rigidly fleshed out theoretically in the area of Chinese morphology. In this book, Shengli Feng applies the theoretical model of prosodic morphology to Chinese morphology to provide the theoretical clarity regarding how and why Mandarin Chinese words are structured in a particular way. All of the facts generated by the system of prosodic morphology in Chinese provide new perspectives for linguistic theory, as well as insights for teaching Chinese and studying of Chinese poetic prosody.

The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese

The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
Author: Xiao-nan Susan Shen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520097506

Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to interrogative; therefore, two baselines and two intonation layers must be reckoned with. Sentence intonation affects the tonal values and the tonal shapes of intrinsic lexical tones, though not beyond recognition. Tonal changes prove to be closely related to sentence intonation, which is superimposed simultaneously onto the utterance as a whole. The author's findings support the position of the movability of the intonation baseline and rectify some widely spread traditional claims concerning Mandarin Chinese prosody.

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese

Prosodic Syntax in Chinese
Author: Shengli Feng
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Chinese language
ISBN: 9781138578920

The author has first introduced the relevant theories and concepts of Metrical Phonology, Prosodic Phonology and Formal Syntax and formulated the Government-based Nuclear Stress Rule in Chinese which can explain how and why Mandarin Chinese sentences are structured in a particular way.