Prosodic Influences on Chinese Tongue Twisters ∗
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A diversity of structural alternations enriches tongue twisters, in form of a language game speakers consider intriguing while reciting. However, none of efforts are put into the interval between twister constituents. This study is an attempt to give a complimentary view to Chinese tongue twisters. The twister effects are actually affected both by unstable lexical structures and limited space between targeted constituents. Likewise, Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004) put forth a constraint-based account to these two issues.
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