The Feature of Descriptive Adjectives'Prosody

Zhai Hui-feng · Journal of Chongqing Vocational & Technical Institute · 2007

Descriptive adjectives are different from qualitative adjectives not only in syntactic founction but also in prosody.Descriptive adjectives are made up of qualitative adjectives,so the plus light foot pattern of qualitative adjectives is caused by its frequency of using and thelight plus stress foot pattern of descriptive adjectives is caused by features of itself.

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