Glottal stop and the emergence of Tone 8 in Zhangzhou
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2023/14/0012/000606Keywords:
New tone, Tonogenesis, Glottal stop, Eight tones, Zhangzhou, Southern MinAbstract
Contradicting a seven-tonal system in all prior auditory-based work, this study proposes an eight-way tonal contrast and explores what mechanism has triggered the emergence of a new tone in Zhangzhou Southern Min, a Sinitic dialect spoken in southern Fujian province in China. The exploration also questions the conventional way of relying on the preservation of Middle Chinese tonal categories and citation context to calculate the totality of tonal contrast in Sinitic languages. It advances our knowledge of tonal phonetics and phonology in this Sinitic language while contributing a new profile to the typology of tonogenesis in the world’s tonal languages.
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