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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Tone (linguistics) (redirect from Tone (tonal language))
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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Fuzhou dialect (section Tonal sandhi)
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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Matsu dialect (section Sandhi and assimilation)
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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Standard Chinese phonology (redirect from Tone sandhi in Standard Chinese)
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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Northern Wu phonology (section Tone sandhi)
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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Taiwanese Hokkien (section Tone sandhi)
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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Shanghainese (section Tone sandhi)
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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Putian dialect (section Tone sandhi)
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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Hokkien phonology (section Tone sandhi)
Tone ④陰入 after sandhi is often described as high level 4 ˦. However, some studies show that it is still not identical to pre-sandhi tone ⑧陽入 in Amoy...
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Wenzhounese (section Tone sandhi)
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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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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Swatow dialect (section Tone sandhi)
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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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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Penang Hokkien (section Tone sandhi)
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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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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Pinyin (section Tone sandhi)
y/i medial: wen → C+un, wei → C+ui, weng → C+ong, and you → Q+iu. Tone sandhi is not ordinarily reflected in pinyin spelling. Standard Chinese has many...
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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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Guanzhong dialect (section Right-prominent sandhi)
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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Gutian dialect (section Tone sandhi)
initial assimilation rules are shown in the table below: The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the rows give the first syllable's...
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Xianyou dialect (section Tone sandhi)
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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large, all three light tones after sandhi may be described as identical and equal to pre-sandhi tone ⑦. The sandhi rules for Northern Teochew may be simplified...
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Spelling in Gwoyeu Romatzyh (section Tonal rules)
(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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Ningde dialect (section Tone sandhi)
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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Meixian dialect (section Tone sandhi)
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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Xiapu dialect (section Tone sandhi)
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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Burmese language (category Tonal languages)
found in related tonal languages and that "its tonal system is now in an advanced state of decay." Spoken Burmese exhibits tone sandhi in the form of a...
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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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