The Tetrasyllbaic Words Of ABAC Pattern In Chinese Based On Non-linear Phonology

There are a number of The Tetrasyllbaic Words of ABAC Pattern in modern Chinese,but the researches about the pattern couldn’t be seen more. Generally these researches onlydiscussed the structural, syntactic and semantic types of the ABAC pattern. There are veryfew discussions for voice or only confined to linear level. There always come to the wrongconclusions because of less abundant linguistic data and uncorrect statistical method.Firstly, this paper define the scope of The Tetrasyllbaic Words of ABAC Pattern,based on the synchronic description of the the phonetic, structural, syntactic and semantictypes of ABAC pattern, the paper points out their rules and characteristics.Secondly, in the Non-linear Phonology pattern, the paper reveals the two ABACcombinations by using the theory of Interactions between Morphology and Prosody,deduced their stress model. According to our analysis: the stress pattern of TheTetrasyllbaic Words of ABAC Pattern has restricted function to the semantic choice. Inmost cases, when The Tetrasyllbaic Words of ABAC Pattern is Composite Prosodic Wordgenerated by the way of [[AB][CD]] pattern, with the stress pattern of [light medium lightweight] that is [X1X2], B and C are antonymous or homologous relationship, AB or ACare VO, VR and SV construction or ABAC are sentence tightening structures; when TheTetrasyllbaic Words of ABAC Pattern is Composite Prosodic Word generated by the wayof [[__B][__C]] pattern, with the stress pattern of [medium light light weight] that is [1XX2], B and C are the paratactic type of composite word or homoionymous relationship, ABor AC are modifier-head or verb-adverbial construction. In addition, in the case of TheTetrasyllbaic Words of ABAC Pattern, the number of generated by the way of [[AB][CD]]are far more than the number of generated by the way of [[__B][__C]].Finally, by using Conceptual Integration theory in Cognitive Linguistics, the paperresearches the integration function of the Chinese Prosody Framework to the TetrasyllbaicWords of ABAC Pattern. We put the ABAC pattern into two kinds of Prosody Framework,the front labeled framework “A……A……” type and the rear labeled framework“……B……C” type. The paper analyzes The Tetrasyllbaic Words of ABAC Pattern whichare integrated by the two Prosody Framework, from the first to the fourth level.