Yuan Liang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuan Liang is involved.

Title

The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese

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

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 23:1 (2022) v, 139 pp. | open access

Articles

Liang, Yuan and Lian-Hee Wee 2022 Melodic-prosodic duality of the syllable: An application to Chinese The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese, Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang (eds.), pp. 82–115 | Article

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

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

Liang, Yuan and Lian-Hee Wee 2016 代表属性: 发音人的选择和语料有效性 [Parameters of representativeness: Subject selection and data integrity] International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1, pp. 160–174 | Article

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