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Analysis of the Foot Types and Structures of Chinese Four-Syllable Abbreviations

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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.

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  1. School of Humanities and International Education, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China

    Wei Ying

  2. College of Advanced Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

    Jianfei Luo

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  1. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jia-Fei Hong

  2. Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China

    Yangsen Zhang

  3. Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

    Pengyuan Liu

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Ying, W., Luo, J. (2020). Analysis of the Foot Types and Structures of Chinese Four-Syllable Abbreviations. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_80

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