Yuan Liang

Yuan Liang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yuan Liang plays a role.

Title

The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese

Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang

[Language and Linguistics, 23:1]2022.  v, 139 pp.
Subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Liang, Yuan and Lian-Hee Wee. 2022. Melodic-prosodic duality of the syllable. The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese, Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang (eds.), pp. 82–115
Implicit in all current theories of the syllable is some assumption of the internal configuration. Prevalent among these are the onset-rime (OR) and the moraic (μ) models, both supported by rather different types of evidence. The OR model favors an interpretation where constituency is exhaustive… read more | Article
Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang. 2022. Preface. The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese, Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang (eds.), pp. 1–3
Introduction
As an empirical study, linguistic investigations rely heavily on the selection of suitable subject speakers as representatives of a language community, which in turn underline the necessity of determining representativeness. Through explicit description of the parameters that define a target… read more | Article