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Tonal Complexity as Conditioning Factor: More Depressing Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone Sandhi

@inproceedings{Rose2002TonalCA,
  title={Tonal Complexity as Conditioning Factor: More Depressing Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone Sandhi},
  author={Philip Rose},
  year={2002}
}

Philip Rose

Published 2002

Psychology

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An acoustic description and tonological analysis are presented for the lexical tone sandhi in a subset of tonal combinations in the Southern Wu dialect of Wenzhou. Realisation of first syllable tones is shown to involve a change to a high rising tone, with and without a depressor, conditioned by the tonological complexity of the tone on the second syllable. Changes to both first and second syllable tones are shown to be part of a wider set of changes governing tonal realisation in Wenzhou sandh