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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Analysis of the Foot Types and Structures of Chinese Four-Syllable Abbreviations
Authors : Wei Ying, Jianfei Luo
Published in: Chinese Lexical Semantics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This paper investigates the foot types and structural features of Chinese four-syllable abbreviations. Results show that: first, whether for the need of complexity and richness of ideogram or for avoiding ambiguity, these abbreviated forms are an essential and meaningful part of modern Chinese abbreviations; second, most of the existing forms tend to present 2 + 2 balanced prosodic structure, nominal attribute in part of speech. In addition, there also exists the possibility of abbreviation further to less than four syllables under some specific conditions.