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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"tone sandhi"”.
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Relational correspondence in tone sandhi
… height (Fo scaling) relation between successive tones. Four height relations are proposed for the tonal contour: "greater than" (x>y), "less than" (x<y), "equal to" (x=y), and "non-equal to" (x=/y). Preservation of the four scaling relations is contextualized with respect to different degrees of …
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Mandarin tone sandhi and the interface study between phonology and syntax
… domain and mode of application of Mandarin third tone sandhi (TS henceforth), in terms of which it is intended to explore the characteristics of the interface between phonology and syntax.
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Tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese and beyond: patterns of variation and diachronic development
This thesis investigates tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese, an under-documented dialect within the Northern Wu group, with a focus on disyllabic and trisyllabic domains. Drawing on fieldwork data, it provides the first systematic acoustic documentation and analysis of Xiangshan tone sandhi. The …
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Aspects of Kejia phonology
… and syllabification, the domain of tone sandhi, and the notion of geminate inalterability. The analysis is in line with the non-linear framework of generative phonology.
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The phonetics and phonology of tone mapping in a constraint-based approach
… both phonetic and phonological aspects of tone mapping in various Chinese languages. The central issue addressed is the role of contrast and positional prominence and neutralization in the realization of tone. The inventory of tonal contrasts constrains the outputs of contextual …
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Singing in Chaozhou: The Relationship between Tones and Songs
In tone languages, tone is the use of pitch to contrast word meanings; this raises questions of whether, and if so, in what ways and to what extent, the pitches and pitch patterns of tones are preserved when they are sung. This thesis explores the relationship between lexical tones and musical …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… answer these questions, four Mandarin phenomena (tone 3 sandhi, aspect marking, relative clauses, and long-distance reflexives) were chosen because they are either absent or differently encoded in English, have different AoAs in monolingual Mandarin-speaking children, and are in different …