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Syllable Structure
The Limits of Variation
Duanmu, San
University of Michigan
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926759-0
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267590.003.0004
4 Syllable structure in Chinese
San Duanmu
Chinese is well known for having a simple syllable structure, clear syllable boundaries, and a small syllable inventory. This chapter examines what its structure is and what constraints influence occurring and non-occurring syllables.
Keywords:
optional onset
,
CG combinations
,
stressed syllables
,
unstressed syllables
,
vowel-less syllables
,
VVC rhymes
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267590.003.0004
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Contents
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Preface
1 Introduction
2 Features, sounds, complex sounds, and the No Contour Principle
3 Theories of syllable structure
4 Syllable structure in Chinese
5 Standard Chinese
6 Shanghai Chinese
7 Syllable and tone
8 English I: the maximal syllable size
9 English II: syllable inventory and related issues
10 German
11 Jiarong (rGyalrong)
12 Theoretical implications
Bibliography
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