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The Nature of Variation in Tone Sandhi Patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 4)

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6181-3

ISBN: 978-981-10-6180-6

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Oct 17, 2017

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Chapter 1Introduction to Tone Sandhi Variation

Yan, Hanbo

Pages: 1 –8

[Modern phonological theory is paying increasingly close attention to variation in phonological patterns. According to Coetzee and Pater (2011), phonological variation is “a situation in which a single morpheme can be realized in more than one phonetic form in a single environment”.]
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Chapter 2Shanghai and Wuxi Tone Sandhi

Yan, Hanbo

Pages: 9 –25

[In this chapter, the Shanghai disyllabic and trisyllabic tone sandhi patterns will be introduced first. The factors that influence the application of variant sandhi forms will also be discussed.]
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Chapter 3Factors Affecting Tone Sandhi Application

Yan, Hanbo

Pages: 27 –42

[In this chapter, we will review how lexical frequency influences variable processes, how semantic transparency affects compound processing and how it is related to sandhi application, and how syntactic structure and morpheme length affect variable sandhi application.]
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Chapter 4Experimental Investigation of the Nature of Tone Sandhi Variation in Shanghai

Yan, Hanbo

Pages: 43 –77

[In Shanghai Chinese, Xu et al. (1981) claimed that grammatical factors, such as semantic transparency, syntactic structure, and morpheme length, and the usage factor of lexical frequency all influence the variant forms of disyllabic and trisyllabic sandhi application. However, it remains unclear...
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Chapter 5Experimental Investigation of the Nature of Tone Sandhi Variation in Wuxi

Yan, Hanbo

Pages: 79 –104

[In Wuxi Chinese, Xu (2007) mentioned in passing that grammatical factors such as semantic transparency and syntactic structure and non-grammatical factors such as lexical frequency can both influence the variable disyllabic sandhi application.]
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Chapter 6General Discussion and Concluding Remarks

Yan, Hanbo

Pages: 105 –112

[This chapter compares the similarities and differences between Shanghai and Wuxi tone sandhi variation and summarizes the main findings. The directions for future research are also outlined.]

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