The Relation of Mora Theory and Reduplicative Adjectives in Taiwanese Southern Min

• Main Authors: Chang-Ching-Cheng, 張景程
• Other Authors: Szu-I Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17509144214557709833

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用外語系碩士班 === 98 === In the thesis, it discusses AA, AAA, AABB, ABAB patterns of the reduplicated adjectives through Mora theory mainly and Mora theory as a tool find out the original weight or the product of other possible existed weight. The thesis argues the tone sandhi could produce the syllable weight and hypothesize that the tone sandhi could produce a Mora. However, the one Mora is not real value and the hypotheses only wants to prove that the tone sandhi could really have the product of the syllable weight. The purpose of the thesis wants to prove that the tone sandhi could produce the syllable weight to change the semantic intensity of the different reduplicated adjectives. However, the thesis solely has a reasonable hypothesis to prove the syllable weight increases by the tone sandhi and it merely needs a virtual Mora value, not exact one. Key words: the reduplicated adjective, Mora theory, tone sandhi