An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in Mandarin

In this paper I use the framework of Optimality Theory to explain the possible tonal patterns of continuous third tones in Mandarin. The constraints indicate that the third tone patterns are sensitive to the syntactic structures, such as complement and adjunct.

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Main Author: Wang, Chuan-Chih
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1998-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/340
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description In this paper I use the framework of Optimality Theory to explain the possible tonal patterns of continuous third tones in Mandarin. The constraints indicate that the third tone patterns are sensitive to the syntactic structures, such as complement and adjunct.
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spelling doaj.art-e153762b74e4472f97ae07fc694dea442022-12-22T01:56:36ZengUniversity of KansasKansas Working Papers in Linguistics2378-76001998-01-0123376010.17161/KWPL.1808.340An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in MandarinWang, Chuan-ChihIn this paper I use the framework of Optimality Theory to explain the possible tonal patterns of continuous third tones in Mandarin. The constraints indicate that the third tone patterns are sensitive to the syntactic structures, such as complement and adjunct.http://hdl.handle.net/1808/340Chinese language-- tone
spellingShingle Wang, Chuan-Chih
An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in Mandarin
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Chinese language-- tone
title An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in Mandarin
title_full An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in Mandarin
title_fullStr An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in Mandarin
title_full_unstemmed An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in Mandarin
title_short An Optimality Account of the Variability of the Third Tone Sandhi Domain in Mandarin
title_sort optimality account of the variability of the third tone sandhi domain in mandarin
topic Chinese language-- tone
url http://hdl.handle.net/1808/340
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