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- Title
RHYTHMICAL FEATURES OF SPOKEN CHINESE: QUANTITATIVE AND GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS (METHODOLOGY).
- Abstract
This paper explains two crucial terms of Chinese prosody, i.e. the linear hierarchy - linking syllables into higher rhythmical units, binars, segments, cola and sentences; and the tone prominence hierarchy - the tonicity of the syllables expressed as atonic, weakened (arsis and thesis), full tone (arsis and thesis) and salient (always arsis). Both of the phenomena create three types of rhythm typical for modern Chinese (Pekinese), i.e. chains of syllables organized in acronymic, ascendent and descendent rhythmic patterns. Concentrating on rhythmic features, this system is the most significant result of research applied to 16,000 sentences of the Learning Dictionary of Spoken Chinese. It not only extends our knowledge about prosody of modern Chinese, but as the syllable represents a basic unit of the morphological plan, it is also an important contribution to understanding its grammatical system.
- Subjects
CHINESE language; QUANTITATIVE research; COST-of-living adjustments; PROSODIC analysis (Linguistics); HIERARCHIES
- Publication
Far East / Dálný Východ, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1, p139
- ISSN
1805-1049
- Publication type
Article