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- Title
PROSODIC FEATURES AND THEIR FUNCTIONING IN MODERN CHINESE.
- Abstract
My chief purpose now being to examine the interferences among tonemes, accentuation, and intonation in modern Chinese (Peking dialect), I should like first of all to deal with the problem of the possibility or impossibility of treating each of these phenomena in isolation. Properly speaking, this problem affects first of all any investigation concerning the nature of tonemes and of accentuation in what we might perhaps call basic rhythmical units. There is no question, in this respect, about intonation since it is quite clear that intonation is superposed, so to say, over accentuation, while accentuation is superposed over tonemes. Theoretically, it is quite evident that any isolated syllable bearing a tone is to be considered as a complete utterance, which cannot be conceived without a definite kind of intonation. It is further evident that in investigating the nature of a toneme - just as that of a segmental phoneme - we must take into consideration all its realizations in any possible environments. Practically, in investigating the nature of tonemes in Chinese, all these requirements, although recognized, are mostly neglected. I should like to present here some observations acquired by trying to analyze the problem of the nature of tonemes, accentuation and intonation in Chinese, viewed in their mutual complex interrelationship.
- Subjects
BEIJING (China); CHINESE language; STRESS (Linguistics); DIALECTS; INVESTIGATIONS; PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Far East / Dálný Východ, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
1805-1049
- Publication type
Article