Tone Sandhi patterns across Chinese dialects

Matthew Chen's study, first published in 2000, offers a most comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide repertoire of tones which undergo often surprising changes when they are connected in speech flow. The term tone sandhi refe...

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1. Verfasser: Chen, Matthew Y. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in linguistics 92
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Setting the stage
  • 2. Tonal representation and tonal processes
  • 3. Directionality and interacting sandhi processes I
  • 4. Directionality and interacting sandhi processes II
  • 5. From base tones to sandhi forms: a constraint-based analysis
  • 6. From tone to accent
  • 7. Stress-foot as sandhi domain I
  • 8. Stress-foot as sandhi domain II
  • 9. Minimal rhythmic unit as obligatory sandhi domain
  • 10. Phonological phrase as a sandhi domain
  • 11. From tone to intonation
  • Bibliographical appendix: Tone sandhi across Chinese dialects