Reverse-engineering Tones and Tone Sandhi in Wenzhou Dialect: Between-speaker Differences and Historical Development

Philip Rose

doi:10.1163/2405478X-90000081

Reverse-engineering Tones and Tone Sandhi in Wenzhou Dialect: Between-speaker Differences and Historical Development

Philip Rose

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Auditory and acoustic descriptions are presented for the tones and tone sandhi of two Wenzhou speakers in disyllabic words with tones from the historical ping+ qucategories. Differencesbetween the speakers both in isolation tones and tone sandhi are demonstrated. It is suggested that the opaque morphotonemic relationships between sandhi and isolation tones are better accounted for historically, rather than as synchronic operations on unique underliers. The effects of stress / metrical strength are an important factor.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	29-48
Journal	Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-90000081
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Reverse-engineering Tones and Tone Sandhi in Wenzhou Dialect: Between-speaker Differences and Historical Development

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