This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naïve
Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups. Their …

A central issue in phonology is whether contour segments exist (see, for example, Chomsky
and Halle 1968, Campbell 1974, Anderson 1976, Herbert 1975, 1986, Sagey 1986, Steriade …

In Slavic Prosody, first published in 1998, Professor Bethin gives a coherent account of the
Slavic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates these developments to issues …

Shanghai Chinese has evolved from the eight-tone system recorded in Edkins (1853) to the
current five-tone system (Qian 2003). Figure 1 illustrates the f0 contours of the five tones (T1 …

This chapter discusses a range of issues on syllables and stress in Chinese: the maximal
and minimal sizes of syllables, their structures, whether syllables need an onset and …

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 …

A well-known problem in Chinese phonology is that in some dialects most regular syllables
keep their underlying tones, but in others the initial syllable determines the tonal pattern of a …

A central hypothesis of rule-based generative phonology is that rules have exclusive access
to representations that occur in the stage of the derivation at which they apply. Whether or …

This study argues that both Shanghai and Taiwanese have a metrical system, that
compound stress is left-headed in Shanghai and right-headed in Taiwanese and that a tonal …

A common conception of Chinese is that most of its words are mono syllabic historically but
disyllabic in modern times. Since Chinese lost over 50% of its syllables in the past 1000 …