Two aspects of productivity in Taiwanese Double Reduplication

Monosyllabic adjectives can undergo double reduplication in Taiwanese to mark intensification. We argue in this paper that the phonological analysis for the tonal patterns of Taiwanese double reduplication relies on three elements: a floating High tone that prefers to dock onto the left edge of the...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Jie, Lai, Yuwen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 2007-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1786