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The Diachrony of Tone Sandhi

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 6)

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1939-6

ISBN: 978-981-13-1938-9

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Aug 31, 2018

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Chapter 1Introduction

Lin, Qing

Pages: 1 –22

[This book investigates the areal variations and the diachronic changes of the final-prominent tone sandhi of Southern Min Chinese (SM hereafter). Its purpose is to provide an adequate explanation for the synchronic patterning of SM tone sandhi by reference to the diachronic changes of tones. It...
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Chapter 2A Position-Based Diachronic Perspective to Tone Sandhi

Lin, Qing

Pages: 23 –43

[This chapter establishes a basic understanding of how tones occurring in domain-final and non-final positions change diachronically and what are the differences between them. First of all, I introduce the “Multi-Register and Four-Level” model used in this book for transcribing and characterizing...
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Chapter 3Experiment Methodologies

Lin, Qing

Pages: 45 –56

[ This chapter begins with a brief introduction to the SM dialects discussed in this book, and then introduces the tone experiments conducted to elicit the acoustics of the tone sandhi of 6 Chao-Shan varieties and 4 Zhang-Quan varieties. The procedures and methods used in the tone experiments...
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Chapter 4Tonal Changes in Chao-Shan

Lin, Qing

Pages: 57 –81

[This chapter presents the results of the tone experiments of the 6 Chao-Shan varieties, and discusses the diachronic tonal changes that these 6 Chao-Shan varieties have undergone. As the 6 Chao-Shan varieties do not differ markedly in their CTs/FTs, the focus of this chapter is how NFTs change....
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Chapter 5Tonal Changes in Zhang-Quan

Lin, Qing

Pages: 83 –103

[This chapter presents the tone sandhi patterns of 10 Zhang-Quan varieties and discusses the diachronic tonal changes involved. The changes of FTs, and NFTs are dealt with separately. Firstly, a common NFT pattern across different SM subgroups is identified, which strongly indicates that there...
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Chapter 6Conclusions

Lin, Qing

Pages: 105 –109

[ In this chapter, I present my conclusions together with a discussion on the formation of Tone Circle. Their implications for our understanding of tone sandhi and tonal change in general are discussed. Several crucial yet unsolved questions are also put forward for further research.]

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