By Matthew Y. Chen
Matthew Chen's landmark learn deals the main complete research so far of the wealthy and complicated styles of tone utilized in chinese language languages. chinese language has a large repertoire of tones that suffer frequently fabulous alterations once they are attached in speech circulation. This tonal alternation is called tone sandhi. Chen examines tone sandhi phenomena throughout numerous chinese language dialects. His e-book is the end result of a ten-year learn undertaking and explores various vital theoretical concerns opposed to a wealth of empirical info now not formerly available to linguists.
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