Explanations like this only beg the question: Why don't monosyllabic adjectives "sound pleasing"? They sounded perfectly fine to the ancestors of today's Mandarin speakers and still sound fine to speakers of other descendents of Middle Chinese. All she's telling you is that utterances with hen3 are judged by native speakers as more well-formed than utterances without them--but you knew that already, didn't you?
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Date: 2006-01-23 05:00 pm (UTC)