Applied Linguistics (Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong)

No. 3 , Pages 9 - 14 , 2003

The Selective Restrictions and the Expressive Functions of Atonic Syllable Er (¨à) (Article written in Chinese)

QI Xiaojie

Abstract
In this paper, the selective restrictions are described in three aspects: prosody, grammar distribution, and the difference from erhua (¨à¤Æ), and the expressive functions are revealed, the author points out that the expressive function is the important element for atonic syllable er (¨à) to emerge or not.

Keywords:	`atonic syllable er (¨à); selective restriction; expressive function`

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