Zhangzhou Yangping Tone and Its Variations: Going Beyond Convention
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0021/000563Keywords:
Yangping tone, F0, Contexts, Zhangzhou, Southern MinAbstract
This study explores the encoding of Yangping tone in Zhangzhou Southern Min across three linguistic contexts. This tone is shown to have multiple realisations comprising a low level [22], a mid-level [33], a mid-falling with level [311], and a low falling with level [211], which are conditioned by positional factors and the phonetics of surrounding tones. The findings contradict prior auditory transcriptions and question certain conventional assumptions used to define a right-dominant tone sandhi system in Sinitic dialects. This study contributes valuable empirical data to the investigation of the typology of tone as an important linguistic phenomenon in China and worldwide.
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