Child-directed speech(CDS)is the language used by the infants’caretakers for infants.CDS in Chinese has distinctive features of redundancy overlap.Compared with AA-style reduplication in adult-direct speech(ADS),redu...
This paper mainly presents evidence for a relationship between language structure and meaning in EkeGusii,a Bantu language spoken in Kenya.The main argument is that the structure of language mirrors the structure of r...
the widely discussed study of word class categorization has a long history of more than 2000 years,which is known as the study of the“God Particles”in language.As a typical analytic language,Modern Chinese,due to it...
Reduplication tends to have prosodic shape invariants which are not necessarily related to a prosodic unit in the base. To learn about the contributions of Correspondence Theory of OT in this respect, we must first fo...
Reduplication is a one of the creative ways in Mandarin.People usually reduplicate to express more deep lexical meaning or semantic meaning vividly.Reduplication is a process of forming new words by repeating an entir...
This study investigates the morphological processes of reduplication in the Ibibio language.Its objectives are to ascertain if construction morphology can account for reduplication in the Ibibio language,what word cla...
Based on Tess of the D'urbervilles and its two versions in Chinese, the static feature of English is clarifi ed from two aspects: preponderance of nouns and feeble verbs while the dynamic feature of Chinese is refl ec...
This study investigates whether the head of the Chinese adjective compounds is on the left or right or on both sides. Using the ABB type of adjectives as evidence, the author argues that the head of the Chinese adject...
Reduplication is an important part in lexicology and linguistics due to its unique word-formation and abundant rhetoric functions.According to different standards,reduplications can be classified into different groups...
Previous literature shows that scholars differ considerably on what verbal reduplication indicates.By making use of an oral speech corpus,we analyzed and tested the data and found that the functions of verbal reduplic...