It is well known that syntax matters to phonology, but does phonology matter to syntax? This
question is controversial, partly because judging whether a phenomenon is syntactic or …

This chapter discusses a range of issues on syllables and stress in Chinese: the maximal
and minimal sizes of syllables, their structures, whether syllables need an onset and …

Purpose Children with cochlear implants (CIs) face challenges in acquiring tonal languages,
as CIs do not efficiently code pitch information. Mandarin is a tonal language with lexical …

Phonological processes can pose a learning challenge for children, where the surface form
for an underlying contrast may vary as a function of the phonological environment. Mandarin …

This article examines how adult distance learners with limited levels of second language
(L2) proficiency can engage in and benefit from e-tandem learning and to what extent …

It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language. Although a
disyllabic prosodic unit of some sort has long been considered by many to be at play in …

A word has elastic length when it has both a short form and a long form, such as 煤–
煤炭'coal'and 種–種植'to plant'. The goal of this study is to find out how many Chinese words …

Recent discussions of Mandarin phonology have appealed to various aspects of phonetic
duration as support for hypotheses concerning the structure of the syllable. But the actual …

The status of Chinese adjective-noun combinations ([AN]) has been debated for decades.
This paper argues that Chinese [AN] are word-level expressions constructed in an …