• IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned...
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  • subset of sandhi called tone sandhi more specifically refers to tone changes between words and syllables. This is a common feature of many tonal languages...
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  • interact in complex ways through a process known as tone sandhi. In a number of East Asian languages, tonal differences are closely intertwined with phonation...
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    sandhi pattern in Lianjiang. Although the effect of the historical tonal registers from Middle Chinese is clear in Lianjiang, the Fuzhou tonal sandhi...
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  • that precedes a second tone resulting from third tone sandhi may or may not be subject to sandhi itself. The results may depend on word boundaries, stress...
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    extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown...
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  • two falling tones have merged into a low falling tone. There is no tone sandhi. Taishanese has four changed tones: mid rising, low rising, mid dipping...
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    related to Taiwanese Hokkien. Phonologically, Hokkien is a tonal language with extensive tone sandhi rules. Syllables consist maximally of an initial consonant...
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  • Fuzhounese has the tonal value /˥/ and also ends in the glottal stop /ʔ/. Within its complex tone sandhi laws, Fuzhounese has a split in sandhi behavior between...
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    extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown...
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  • extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown...
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  • compared to other languages in Southern China and has a system of tone sandhi similar to Japanese pitch accent. The speech of Shanghai had long been influenced...
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  • undergo tone sandhi as described above. Double hyphens (--) are used in instances where the preceding syllable does not undergo tone sandhi. Tone marks...
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  • vowels, even compared to some Germanic languages, and highly complex tone sandhi. This article will use Wugniu and IPA for transcription. Much like other...
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  • (both pronounced [t͡ɕjaɚ̯˥]). The most important manifestation of tone sandhi in Mandarin is the change of a T3 syllable to T2 when followed by another...
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  • but they behave as four different tones in the ways they undergo tone sandhi.[clarification needed] As in Shanghainese, in Wenzhounese only some of the...
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    Generally speaking, the tonal sandhi system of Lianjiang is more conservative than that of Fuzhou, in that the Lianjiang tonal sandhi is still largely controlled...
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  • The speech of Xi'an has four tones and one neutral tone. It also has tone sandhi system. Like many other Northern Mandarin varieties, the variety lacks a...
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  • extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown...
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    isolation but can still be distinguished in tone sandhi contexts. That is, while e.g. Standard Mandarin has a tonal distinction between Tone 1 and Tone 2, corresponding...
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  • > [ʈ], rl /rl/ > [ɭ], rs /rs/ > [ʂ], etc. /rd/ across word boundaries (sandhi), in loanwords and in a group of primarily literary words may be pronounced...
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  • characters exhibit sandhi when the following character has a lower pitch. The pitch of the yin ping tone changes from ˦ (44) to ˧˥ (35) when sandhi occurs. Similarly...
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    same post-sandhi value regardless of the next syllable's tone. The light departing tone (⑦) after sandhi is usually merged with the post-sandhi tone ⑤ or...
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  • of the Western branch of Hokkien, have more complex tone sandhi systems, with the post-sandhi tone dependent on the following tone. "Dark level" tone ①陰平...
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    Punjabi language (category Tonal languages in non-tonal families)
    English-Punjabi Dictionary, introduction. Singh, Sukhvindar, "Tone Rules and Tone Sandhi in Punjabi". Bowden, A.L. (2012). "Punjabi Tonemics and the Gurmukhi Script:...
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  • initial assimilation rules are shown in the table below: The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below: Min is believed to have split from...
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    In Tlapanec, stress is determined by the tonal contour of the words. Most languages have systems of tone sandhi where the tones of a word or syllable are...
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    (1959:458–461) Eliasson, Stig (1986), "Sandhi in Peninsular Scandinavian", in Anderson, Henning (ed.), Sandhi Phenomena in the Languages of Europe, Berlin:...
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  • extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown...
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  • Fu'an dialect has 18 initials, 50 rimes and 7 tones. The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the rows give the first syllable's...
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