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Levels of Structure Within Chinese Character Constituents
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Abstract. It is already known that Chinese readers and writers decompose characters into four structural levels: basic components, complex strokes, simple strokes, and stroke features. These levels parallel word-internal structure in spoken and signed languages (respectively, morphemes, complex segments, segments, and segmental features). In this paper I consider evidence for a level intermediate between basic components and strokes: the stroke group. Like syllables, stroke groups are targeted by stress-like prominence and analyzable in terms of analogs to onsets, nuclei, and codas. They also seem to compete with each other for space within a component, as syllables do within morphemes. Though the analogies between stroke groups and syllables are weaker than the linguistic analogies for other character levels, the stroke group concept may help improve our understanding of a hitherto understudied aspect of writing systems: stroke interactions.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-myer


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@INPROCEEDINGS{gla5-myer,
   AUTHOR = {James Myers},
   EDITOR = {Haralambous, Yannis},
   TITLE = {{Levels of Structure Within Chinese Character Constituents}},
   BOOKTITLE = {{Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020}},
   SERIES = {{Grapholinguistics and Its Applications}},
   VOLUME = {5},
   PUBLISHER = {Fluxus Editions},
   ADDRESS = {Brest},
   YEAR = {2020},
   PAGES = {645--681},
   DOI = {https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-myer},
}