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dc.title | Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Phonotactic Description and the Issue of the Norm | |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, C.-y. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-13T05:30:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-13T05:30:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1984 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Chen, C.-y. (1984). Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Phonotactic Description and the Issue of the Norm. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12 (2) : 299-333. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 00913723 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/132287 | |
dc.description.abstract | Neutral tone in Mandarin is studied & the existence of stressed neutral-toned syllables in addition to weak-stressed toned syllables described. It is noted that while the neutral tone in certain forms does not trigger a sandhi change, in other forms it does. Grammatical approaches to this problem in previous research are found to be inadequate, & an explanation for the phenomenon is proposed: neutral tone & weak stress are two separate entities, & hence do not interact in terms of cause & effect. Certain grammatical morphemes in Mandarin lacking tone at both the deep & surface levels are usually weak-stressed, but even when normal-stressed do not trigger sandhi changes. Lexical neutral tone items are examined & tonal readings of 760 disyllabic lexical items from three dictionary sources are studied. Extensive inconsistencies of tone marking are shown to require revision of dictionary tonal annotation. Modified HA. | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | CHINESE STUDIES | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Journal of Chinese Linguistics | |
dc.description.volume | 12 | |
dc.description.issue | 2 | |
dc.description.page | 299-333 | |
dc.description.coden | JCLGA | |
dc.identifier.isiut | NOT_IN_WOS | |
Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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