Prosody and "elastic words" in Chinese
Language Log 2013-05-13
Summary:
During my recent visit to Michigan, San Duanmu told me about some really neat work that he published last year as "Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study", Journal of East Asian Linguistics 21.1: 89-114, 2012.San starts from the observation that many Chinese words have two forms, a two-syllable form and a one-syllable frorm, whose meanings [...]