It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language. Although a disyllabic prosodic unit of some sort has long been considered by many to be at play in Chinese grammar, the intuition is not always rigidly fleshed out theoretically in the area of Chinese morphology. In
The prosody or Mandarin Chinese
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Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989. β 95 p. β ISBN 0-520-09750-5
Intonation is not a single feature of language, but rather a complex of linguistic and paralinguistic features. These features are not acquired simultaneously, because their mastery requires an integration of grammatical, attitudinal, and social Factors.In the previous work concerning the analysis and description of the intonation of MC, it seems to me that there exist three problems: (1) imperfect investigation methods, (2) confusion of multiple uses of pitch, and (3) inaccurate assumptions about intonation makeup,
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