Chinese languages often have complex patterns of tone alternation caused by adjacent
tones or the prosodic/morphosyntactic environment in which a tone appears, commonly …

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 …

It has long been recognized that tone in Chinese (and other mainland Asian tone
languages) is different from tone in African languages. Two differences are noteworthy (see …

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 …

Chinese tone has played an important role in the development of phonological theory from
distinctive features and autosegmental phonology to Optimality Theory and its various …

The study of tone sandhi has a long tradition in Chinese linguistics. The earliest intimation of
tone sandhi appears to be Zhongyuan Yinyun, a 14th century pronouncing dictionary of …

Since Pike (1948), the world's extant tone languages are often classified into two types:
terraced-level tone systems, typical of African languages, and contour tone systems, typical …

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112 LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS OF CHINA gets shifted one direction or the other
depending on the location accented syllable. In the case of English, then, pitch--more spe …