| Summary: | The term "sandhi" refers to phonetic changes occurring in words which are caused by certain phonetic characteristics of contiguous words. Thus "tone sandhi" is the change of tone in one word caused by the tone of a neighboring word. According to Kenneth Pike (1948: 25), "regular tone sandhi" narrowly described is "forced meaningless substitutions of one toneme for another . . . in which one toneme is perturbed by another." Eugenie Henderson (1967: 174) refers to "tonal alternation and compounding" and differentiates "tonal alternation," which affects meaning, from "tone sandhi," which she takes in the narrow sense given above.
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