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Reverse-engineering Tones and Tone Sandhi in Wenzhou Dialect: Between-speaker Differences and Historical Development

In: Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
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Phil Rose
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24 Jan 2011
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Auditory and acoustic descriptions are presented for the tones and tone sandhi of two Wenzhou speakers in disyllabic words with tones from the historical ping + qu categories. Differences between the speakers both in isolation tones and tone sandhi are demonstrated. It is suggested that the opaque morphotonemic relationships between sandhi and isolation tones are better accounted for historically, rather than as synchronic operations on unique underliers. The effects of stress / metrical strength are an important factor.

Title:
Reverse-engineering Tones and Tone Sandhi in Wenzhou Dialect: Between-speaker Differences and Historical Development
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-90000081
Language:
English
Pages:
29–48
Keywords:
Wu dialects; Wenzhou; tone sandhi; between-speaker differences; reconstruction.
In:
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
In:
Volume 5: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
2405-478X
Print ISSN:
1933-6985
Subjects:
China, Asian Studies, Uralic, Altaic & East Asian Languages, Languages and Linguistics

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