Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-3 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Language and Linguistics |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 15 Dec 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
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- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
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In: Language and Linguistics, Vol. 23, No. 1, 01.01.2022, p. 1-3.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
TY - JOUR
T1 - Preface
AU - Wee, Lian Hee
AU - Wang, Feng
AU - Liang, Yuan
N1 - Funding Information: While tone may be a prosodic feature, it is the syllable that is a prosodic unit. Any serious understanding of Chinese phonology cannot afford to neglect the syllable and its prosody in Chinese. Indeed, the inventory of syllables for many Chinese languages have been described by much valuable fieldwork, and the phonotactics well-studied by phonologists. Nevertheless, a breakthrough is needed to learn about the Chinese syllable beyond well-known phonotactic constraints and different speculations on syllable structure. Without such a break-through, one will have to remain in the dark about how Chinese prosody is mediated through what is perhaps its most fundamental prosodic unit and how that has any connection to the dazzling tonal patterns that have captured so much attention. In 2017, linguists at the Education University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and the Hong Kong Baptist University felt that the time has come to call upon the world for help to find this breakthrough. The International Symposium on Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics (SFCL-1) thus came to being, and the first conference was held on 8–9 June 2018. Supported by generous funding from the three universities, the conference was free to the public and brought together many exciting papers. Five of these, having undergone rigorous selection and review, are presented in this volume. Through them, one sees new inroads into the study of the syllable in Chinese, coming from obtuse angles such as cognitive limits, tone alignment, isochrony, and segmental features, and even phonation. We believe this rather eclectic collection of papers may yet prove to be seminal and catalytic to Chinese phonetic and phonological research.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
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U2 - 10.1075/lali.00096.pre
DO - 10.1075/lali.00096.pre
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85122433700
SN - 1606-822X
VL - 23
SP - 1
EP - 3
JO - Language and Linguistics
JF - Language and Linguistics
IS - 1
ER -