This chapter provides a summary of the prosodic systems of varieties of Chinese spoken in
mainland China and Taiwan as well as languages in Siberia, in particular Ket. What the …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

In Chinese, there are many interesting phenomena bearing on the connections established
between syntax and prosodic structure, and how and to what degree syntax‐prosody …

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 …

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 …

This dissertation is concerned with the prosodic aspects of phonology, in particular, with the
status of tone in current phonological theories. It starts with a review of the various …