Targeted and Targetless Neutral Tones in Taiwanese Southern Min

Liu, Roger Cheng-yen; Hsieh, Feng-fan; Chang, Yang-Chyuan

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2021-434

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“…Previous studies have established several inventories of the function morphemes under different morphosyntactic assumptions (Ang 1998;Cheng 1997;Du 1988;Li 1962). We follow Liu (2021) and Liu, Hsieh, and Chang (2021), classifying these function morphemes into three major types by syntactic properties: particle, suffix, and phrase. We will focus only on the suffixal and phrasal function morphemes (including their non-neutral-tone and neutral-tone variants) in this paper.…”

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On the Distribution of Neutral Tone in Southern Min: LCC and Beyond

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Hsieh

Chang

2023

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The aim of this paper is to address an often-overlooked topic in Southern Min tonology: neutral tone. We show that the tone sandhi domain in Southern Min is not always isomorphic with an XP in syntax or a phonological phrase. In fact, this domain may be smaller than what has been predicted, as evidenced in the phrase-final functional morphemes as well as in the rhythmic effect. We propose that the tone sandhi domain in Southern Min is defined by a constituent Tone Sandhi Domain (TSD, τ) between the p-phrase and the p-word. A TSD is required to bear a final prominence, and only a p-word, mapped from a contentive or focused element in syntax, can be a “prominence-bearing unit.”

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confidence: 99%