This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bisyllabic, partially reduplicated words in classical Chinese fall under two major categories: i-words and r-words. An i-word consists of ...

What does it take to communicate? If you're on a crowded train platform, shouting to your friend 20 yards away, it might take simplification. Imagine trying to say "unequivocally." It probably ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...