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Based on the characteristics of Chinese characters, Chinese characters is the intersection of speech and grammar in Chinese with stable speech performance. One Chinese character is a syllable with a tone as a sign. Moreover, Chinese characters have a tenacious meaning, which makes the meaning of words not easy to lose. In other words, monosyllabic words can always maintain strong independence. But between different word classes, its independence also shows differences. In this paper we take the component of antonymous compounds as the entry point, and find that monosyllabic nouns have the strongest independence, followed by verbs, and adjectives have the weakest independence.
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Zhang, J. (2020). The Independence of Monosyllabic Words. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_32
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