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Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, discourse, and grammarHongyin Tao
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar 5] 1996
► pp. vii–xii
Hongyin Tao
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar 5] 1996
► pp. vii–xii
Table of contents
Prefacev
List of Abbreviationsxiii
List of Tablesxv
List of Figuresxvi
1. Introduction1
2. Preliminaries and Methodology5
3. Prosodic Properties of Mandarin Intonation Units32
4. Grammatical Structure of the Mandarin Intonation Unit55
5. The Pragmatics of NP Intonation Units78
6. The Preferred Clause Structure in Conversation108
7. Non-Anaphoric Elliptical Clausal Intonation Units128
8. Low Transitivity Pronominal Full Clausal IUs149
9. Units of Speech and of Grammar174
10. Conclusions194
Notes197
References204
Appendix (Transcription Conventions)217
Index219
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