Abstract
In this paper, I re-examine the non-uniqueness condition a la Chao (1934), and show that this condition is a by-product of the CCVC analysis of the Chinese syllable structure. I argue that such a condition should be avoided since it introduces arbitrariness and indeterminacy into linguistic theories. I submit that this can be done by adopting the CVC analysis of the Chinese syllable structure. I will then argue that the most reliable basis for analyzing the syllable structure is morphophonemic alternation, that while there is morphophonemic evidence for analyzing the prevocalic and post-vocalic portions of the Chinese syllable as individual segments, there is none for the syllable medial, and that reduplication and fanqie language formation processes which appear to justify the CCVC analysis are better accounted for with a CVC analysis.
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