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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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> [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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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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Hokkien phonology (section Tone sandhi)
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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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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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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languages like English. Pitch-accent languages also contrast with fully tonal languages like Vietnamese, Thai and Standard Chinese, in which practically...
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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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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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2022. Called từ láy in Vietnamese. Tonal harmony should not be confused with the more common phenomenon of tone sandhi which is not present in Vietnamese...
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