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 …

In this dissertation, I discuss phonological analyses of tone sandhi rules, as well as the
domains in which tone sandhi rules apply. After a survey of Sino-Tibetan languages, I …

This study sets out to construct a fully articulated theory of the phonology of tone,
encompassing both the formal properties of tonal rules, and a feature system for tone. To …

Southeast Asia is often considered a quintessential Sprachbund where languages from five
different language phyla have been converging typologically for millennia. One of the …

This dissertation presents studies of tone sandhi in four major southeast Chinese dialects,
Fuzhou, Shanghai, Chaozhou and Amoy, with major emphasis on Fuzhou. The dissertation …

Since the publication of Pike (1948), it has often been assumed that tone systems fall into
two types:(i) Chinese, Vietnamese, and nearby languages of East and Southeast Asia are …

Annotation This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a
wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone …

Chinese tone sandhi systems are often classified as left-dominant or right-dominant
depending on the position of the syllable retaining the citation tone. An asymmetry exists …

Abstract In Standard Chinese, a low tone (Tone3) is often realized with a rising F0 contour
before another low tone; this tone change is known as the 3rd tone sandhi. This study …

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