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Title:Minimal Word in Mandarin Chinese
Authors:Shengli Feng
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Length:23
Abstract:This paper explores the minimal word effect in Mandarin Chinese. It is shown that the minimal word phenomena in Chinese provide strong evidence supporting McCarthy and Prince's minimality theorem and most importantly, that the minimal word constaint can also be extended to much broader applications such as compound formation and its interaction with syntactic constructions in languages like Chinese.
Type:Paper/tech report
Area/Keywords:Morphology
Article:Version 1