This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of
the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading …

We present in this article an acoustic study on tone sandhi and tonal coarticulation in Tianjin
Chinese. Our results indicate that Tianjin tone sandhi is likely influenced by Standard …

" Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest
China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from …

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 …

Chinese tone has played an important role in the development of phonological theory from
distinctive features and autosegmental phonology to Optimality Theory and its various …

An attempt is described to ascertain how well the F0 of the isolation tones of a variety of
Chinese can be normalised using the mean and standard deviation from seven speakers' …

Sui clan exogamy can serve as a laboratory for investigation of dialect contact and
immigration. The Sui people, an indigenous minority of southwest China, have marriage …

In the earliest work on tone languages, tones were treated as atomic units: High, Mid, Low,
High Rising, etc. Universal tone features were introduced into phonological theory by Wang …

Chinese languages often have complex patterns of tone alternation caused by adjacent
tones or the prosodic/morphosyntactic environment in which a tone appears, commonly …