The interplay and interaction between prosody and syntax: evidence from Mandarin Chinese
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This paper aims to (1.) quantify possible correlation between syntactic structure and prosodic manifestation in Mandarin Chinese, (2.) explore to what extent such correlation could be predicted by syntactic structures and what may go beyond these correlations, and (3.) increase more operational characteristics to Mandarin prosodic structures.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000