In this paper acoustic properties of two types of reduplicative compound (full and tone
sandhi reduplications) were examined to show acoustic evidence of assymetrical …

Formalist and functionalist approaches to language have long been seen as inherently
antagonistic, but in recent years this has begun to change, as formalists recognize the …

The project examines prosodic ability in the normal adult population of speakers of southern
British English. In the absence of documented normative data, a new test designed to cover …

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 …

The aim of this book is to provide an investigation of the phonetics and phonology of tones in
the Fuzhou variety of Chinese as they occur in citation and in disyllabic utterances. I present …

The current study provides additional phonetic data for the light-initial sandhi patterns in
Suzhou Chinese, illustrating a context-sensitive pitch alternation that is not present after …

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 …

This paper discusses the prosody of Naxi, Yongning Na and Laze, three Sino-Tibetan
languages of the Naish subgroup. These three languages have three level tones (High, Mid …

This study investigates the tonal variant description of the official dialect in China
(Putonghua) as a factor in the coevolution of dialects. Three sociophonetic factors, target …

This book investigates the diachronic change of the tone sandhi of Southern Min Chinese,
which is known for its synchronic arbitrariness and opacity. It argues that in final-prominent …