The diachrony of Tone Sandhi : evidence from southern Min Chinese /: evidence from southern Min Chinese. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Qing Lin.
• Authors: Lin, Qing
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What Is "Tone Sandhi"?; 1.2 Recent Approaches to Tone Sandhi; 1.2.1 Tone Sandhi as an Embodiment of Prosodic Structure; 1.2.2 Tone Sandhi as Phonologized Tonal Variation; 1.3 Problems Surrounding Southern Min Tone Sandhi; 1.3.1 Xiamen Tone Pattern; 1.3.2 The Nature of SM Tone Sandhi; 1.3.3 The Nature of SM Tone Sandhi Group; 1.3.4 Problems Raised by Recent Findings; 1.3.5 The Tone Sandhi Patterns of Other Southern Min Dialects; 1.4 Research Goals; 1.5 Outline of the Book; References 2 A Position-Based Diachronic Perspective to Tone Sandhi2.1 A General Tone Model; 2.2 How Do Citation Tones Change?; 2.2.1 One Tone's Shift; 2.2.2 Chain Shift; 2.3 How Do Non-final Tones Change?; 2.3.1 Typological Asymmetries Between Final and Non-final Tones; 2.3.2 Phonetic Asymmetries Between Final and Non-final Tones; 2.4 Summary; References; 3 Experiment Methodologies; 3.1 Southern Min Varieties; 3.2 Experiment on Tone Acoustics; 3.2.1 Participants; 3.2.2 Materials; 3.2.3 Recordings; 3.2.4 Acoustic Measurements; 3.2.5 Normalization; 3.2.6 Notation; References; 4 Tonal Changes in Chao-Shan 4.1 The Citation Tones of 6 Chao-Shan Varieties4.2 The Tone Sandhi Patterns of 6 Chao-Shan Varieties; 4.2.1 Raoping (RP); 4.2.2 Batou (BT); 4.2.3 Chengcheng (CC); 4.2.4 Chaozhou (CZ); 4.2.5 Jieyang (JY); 4.2.6 Anbu (AB); 4.3 The Changes of Chao-Shan FTs; 4.4 The Changes of Chao-Shan NFTs; 4.4.1 The Motivation of NFT Change; 4.5 Summary; References; 5 Tonal Changes in Zhang-Quan; 5.1 A Common NFT Pattern Across Different SM Subgroups; 5.1.1 A Case from Zhangzhou: Xipu (XP); 5.1.2 Two Cases from Quanzhou: Nan'an (NA) and Jinjiang (JJ); 5.1.3 A Case from Coastal Taiwanese: Hsinchu (HC) 5.1.4 Discussion5.2 The Tone Sandhi Patterns of 7 Zhangzhou Varieties; 5.2.1 Zhangzhou (ZZ); 5.2.2 Taipei (TP); 5.2.3 Xiamen (XM); 5.2.4 Changtai (CT); 5.2.5 Nanjing (NJ); 5.3 The Changes of Zhangzhou NFTs; 5.4 The Changes of Zhangzhou FTs/CTs; 5.5 Summary; References; 6 Conclusions; 6.1 The Diachrony of SM Tone Sandhi; 6.2 The Formation of Tone Circle; 6.3 Implications and Further Challenges; Appendix A Monosyllabic Reading List; Appendix B Disyllabic Reading List; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 495.17; Linguistics; Southern Min dialects -- Phonology; Chinese language -- Phonology; Tone (Phonetics); FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages; Chinese language -- Phonology; Southern Min dialects -- Phonology; Tone (Phonetics); Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Foreign Language Study -- Chinese; Linguistics; Chinese language; Historical & comparative linguistics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811319396; 9811319391
• Related ISBNs: 9789811319389; 9811319383
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2018)
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