A Series of Books on Chinese Prosodic Grammar: The Prosodic Form in Chinese

Based on the physical nature of language, this book introduces the prosodic feature of human language in terms of the height, strength, and length of a voice. It organizes and classifies the formation means of different languages from the perspectives of the segments and super-segments of the voice. On this basis, through analyzing the interactions between the prosodic and form of Chinese, it proposes that the prosodic components of super-segments of a voice, such as the height, strength and length of a voice, are also important formation means and are as same as the consonants and vowels of segments. Chinese is a kind of language which has and even is rich in prosodic form. At the same time, the cross-linguistic phenomena show that prosodic form is not the unique feature of Chinese, but the generality of human language. The studies of the prosodic form of language are going to be comprehensively developed.