
The Structure of Tone
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Chapter One: Introduction
- 1.1 The Geometry of Tone
- 1.2 Tone as Autosegmental Tier
- 1.3 A Brief Note on Chinese Dialects
- Chapter Two: Theories of Tone: A Survey
- 2.1 Yin-Yang Registers
- 2.2 Chao (1930)
- 2.3 Tone in Chinese Linguistics
- 2.4 Wang (1967)
- 2.5 Woo (1969)
- 2.6 Halle and Stevens (1971)
- 2.7 Yip (1980)
- 2.8 Clements (1983)
- 2.9 Hyman (1986)
- 2.10 Shih (1986)
- 2.11 Inkelas (1987)
- 2.12 Hyman (1993)
- 2.13 Yip (1989)
- 2.14 Duanmu (1990, 1994)
- 2.15 Snider (1990)
- 2.16 Chang (1992)
- 2.17 Tsay (1994)
- Chapter Three: The Representation of Tone
- 3.1 The Geometry of Tone
- 3.2 Motivation of Underlying Contour
- 3.2.1 Tonal Inventory and Tonal Contour
- 3.2.2 Natural Class and Tonal Contour
- 3.2.3 The OCP and Tonal Contour
- 3.3 Assimilation in Tone Sandhi
- 3.3.1 Tone Assimilation
- 3.3.2 Register Assimilation
- 3.3.3 Contour Assimilation
- 3.3.4 Feature Assimilation
- 3.4 Contours and Other Matters
- 3.4.1 Distributional Properties of Tones
- 3.4.2 Convex and Concave
- 3.4.3 Contour Simplification
- Chapter Four: The Autosegmental Nature of Tone
- 4.1 Tonal Morphemes
- 4.1.1 Danyang Word Melodies
- 4.1.2 Wenzhou Definitive Morpheme
- 4.1.3 Cantonese Changed Tones
- 4.1.4 Prefixes in Jiading Miao
- 4.1.5 Diminutive Suffix in Shenmu and Daye
- 4.1.6 Tone as Inflectional or Derivational Affix
- 4.2 Tone under Segmental Deletion
- 4.2.1 Cantonese
- 4.2.2 Fanqie Languages
- 4.3 The Bridge Effect
- Chapter Five: Tone in Phonological Representation
- 5.1 Dual Nature of Tone
- 5.2 Structure-Dependency of Tone Stability
- 5.3 Segmentalization of Tone
- 5.4 Phonological Processes of Tone Sandhi
- 5.4.1 Assimilation
- 5.4.2 Dissimilation
- 5.4.3 Other Sandhi Effects
- Chapter Six: The Mid Tone
- 6.1 Mid Tone as Default
- 6.2 Dual Structure of the Mid Tone
- 6.3 Numerals
- 6.4 Classifiers
- 6.5 R-Lowering Reconsidered
- Chapter Seven: Epilogue
- 7.1 Contour System versus Level System: A Parametric View
- 7.2 Some Problematic Cases for the Theory
- 7.2.1 Syllabic Nasals and Obstruents
- 7.2.2 Unusual Tonal Inventories
- 7.2.3 Convex and Concave
- 7.3 Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
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