This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to prosodic constituents according to well-formedness conditions. Using a tone-sequence model of intonation…
1 Introduction -- 2 Prosodic Word as an Origin of Compounds in Classical Chinese -- 3 Monosyllabicity and Disyllabicity -- 4 Prosodically Constrained Compound Formation -- 5 Minimal and Maximal Word Effects -- 6 Prosodic Register Grammar -- 7 Compound Prosodic Word -- Sizige??? …
"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 …
"Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level meaning. The contributions to the book resultfroma vivid exchange ofresearch i…
"Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level meaning. The contributions to the book resultfroma vivid exchange ofresearch i…
