Phonology of Standard Chinese.
Title:
Phonology of Standard Chinese.
Author:
Duanmu, San.
ISBN:
9780191526992
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (382 pages)
Series:
The Phonology of the World's Languages
Contents:
Contents -- Notes on Transcription -- Features, Abbreviations, and Symbols -- Prefaces -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Chinese, its speakers, and its dialects -- 1.2. History -- 1.3. Standard Chinese -- 1.3.1. Standard Spoken Chinese -- 1.3.2. Alphabetical writing and Pinyin -- 1.3.3. Vernacular writing -- 1.4. Phonological literature on Standard Chinese -- 1.5. Goals of this book -- 2. THE SOUND INVENTORY -- 2.1. What is a sound? -- 2.2. Phonemics -- 2.2.1. The minimal pair -- 2.2.2. Complementary distribution -- 2.2.3. Phonetic similarity -- 2.2.4. Over-analysis -- 2.2.5. Under-analysis -- 2.2.6. Phonemic economy -- 2.3. Using syllable structure in phonemic analysis -- 2.4. Features and the representation of sounds -- 2.4.1. Phonological features -- 2.4.2. Complex sounds and the No-Contour Principle -- 2.4.3. Length and diphthongs -- 2.4.4. Underspecification -- 2.5. Glides -- 2.6. Consonants -- 2.7. Consonant-glide combinations -- 2.8. Palatals as Consonant-glide combinations -- 2.9. Syllabic consonants -- 2.10. Vowels -- 2.10.1. High vowels -- 2.10.2. The mid vowel -- 2.10.3. The low vowel -- 2.10.4. The retroflex vowel -- 2.10.5. Diphthongs -- 2.10.6. Vowel length -- 2.11. How many sounds are there in Standard Chinese? -- 2.12. Feature charts for Standard Chinese sounds -- 3. COMBINATIONS AND VARIATION -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Phonetics and phonology: What is relevant? -- 3.3. The rule-based approach -- 3.4. The constraint-based approach -- 3.5. The data -- 3.5.1. Transcriptions -- 3.5.2. Rhyming groups -- 3.5.3. Missing forms -- 3.6. Rhyme-Harmony, Merge, and G-Spreading -- 3.7. Allophonic variations -- 3.7.1. G-Spreading -- 3.7.2. Surface variation in vowels -- 3.8. Transcription of surface Standard Chinese sounds -- 3.8.1. Required surface variations -- 3.8.2. Optional surface variations -- 3.9. Tone and vowel height -- 3.10. Labial onsets.
3.11. Summary -- 4. THE SYLLABLE -- 4.1. Syllable boundaries -- 4.2. The onset: obligatory or optional? -- 4.3. The analysis of consonant-glide -- 4.4. Structure of stressed syllables -- 4.5. Structure of unstressed syllables -- 4.6. Language games -- 4.6.1. Na-ma -- 4.6.2. Mai-ka -- 4.6.3. Mo-pa -- 4.6.4. Summary -- 4.7. Final vs. non-final positions -- 4.8. Casual speech and vowel-less syllables -- 4.9. Other views on the Chinese syllable -- 4.10. Homophone density, frequency, and syllable loss -- 4.11. Summary -- 5. WORDS AND COMPOUNDS -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Previous criteria for wordhood -- 5.2.1. The Lexical Integrity Hypothesis -- 5.2.2. Conjunction Reduction -- 5.2.3. Freedom of Parts -- 5.2.4. Semantic Composition -- 5.2.5. Syllable count -- 5.2.6. Insertion -- 5.2.7. Exocentric structure -- 5.2.8. Adverbial Modification -- 5.2.9. XP Substitution -- 5.2.10. Productivity -- 5.2.11. Intuition -- 5.2.12. Summary -- 5.3. The present analysis -- 5.3.1. Tests to be rejected -- 5.3.2. Tests to be adopted with limitations -- 5.3.3. Tests to be adopted -- 5.3.4. Summary -- 5.4. Compound internal conjunction -- 5.5. [M de N] inside [M N] -- 5.6. Locatives -- 5.7. de-omission -- 5.8. Pseudo-compounds and pseudo-words -- 5.9. [A N] and Foot Shelter -- 5.10. [Pronoun N] -- 5.11. Summary -- 6. STRESS -- 6.1. Judgement on stress -- 6.2. Stress and syllabic weight -- 6.3. Stress and feet -- 6.4. Pitch accent, downstep, upstep, and levels of stress -- 6.5. Foot Binarity and the empty beat -- 6.6. Foot structure and the Dual Trochee -- 6.7. Word stress -- 6.8. The Information-Stress Principle -- 6.9. Phrasal stress -- 6.9.1. Phrasal stress in English -- 6.9.2. Phrasal stress in Chinese -- 6.10. Stress effects in Chinese -- 6.11. Other views of stress and foot in Chinese -- 6.12. Summary -- 7. THE WORD-LENGTH PROBLEM -- 7.1. Introduction.
7.2. Abundance of disyllabic words in Chinese -- 7.3. The dual vocabulary -- 7.4. Ambiguity avoidance? -- 7.5. Other views on the use of disyllabic words -- 7.5.1. The speech-tempo approach -- 7.5.2. The grammatical approach -- 7.5.3. The rhythm approach -- 7.5.4. The morphologization approach -- 7.5.5. The stress-length approach -- 7.6. Stress, foot, and word-length choices -- 7.7. The minimal word and name usage -- 7.8. Non-metrical factors -- 7.9. Monosyllables in different word categories -- 7.10. Fixed-length words -- 7.11. [A N] compounds -- 7.12. Summary -- 8. THE WORD-ORDER PROBLEM -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. [X Y N] compounds -- 8.3. [V-O N] compounds -- 8.3.1. The data -- 8.3.2. The analysis -- 8.4. [V-O N] compounds in English -- 8.5. Movement or not? -- 8.6. [V N] compounds -- 8.7. Compounds with internal VO phrases -- 8.8. Summary -- 9. THE [omitted] SUFFIX -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Basic facts -- 9.3. Previous analyses -- 9.3.1. Y. Lin (1989) -- 9.3.2. Duanmu (1990) -- 9.3.3. J. Wang (1993) -- 9.4. The present analysis -- 9.5. Variations -- 9.6. Interaction between tone and the [omitted] suffix -- 9.7. The [omitted] suffix in other Mandarin dialects -- 9.8. Summary -- 10. TONE: BASIC PROPERTIES -- 10.1. Tone and tonal transcription -- 10.2. Phonetic correlates of tone -- 10.3. Tonal features: Pitch and Register -- 10.3.1. Pitch and Register -- 10.3.2. Levels of contrast -- 10.4. Contour tones and the tone-bearing unit -- 10.5. Is tone a prosodic feature? -- 10.6. Tones in Standard Chinese -- 10.6.1. Tones on full syllables -- 10.6.2. Variation of T3 -- 10.6.3. Variation of T2 -- 10.6.4. Tone on weak syllables -- 10.6.5. T3S and weak syllables -- 10.6.6. Tone and vowel height -- 10.6.7. Tone and length -- 10.6.8. Some special syllables -- 10.6.9. Reduplicated patterns -- 10.7. Tone and stress: the Tone-Stress Principle.
10.8. Tone and intonation -- 10.9. Tone in songs -- 10.10. Tonal frequencies in Standard Chinese -- 10.11. Summary -- 11. TONE 3 SANDHI (T3S) -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. The data -- 11.3. The tree-only analysis -- 11.4. The stress-insensitive foot analysis -- 11.5. The present analysis -- 11.6. Summary -- 12. RHYTHM IN POETRY -- 12.1. What is rhythm in poetry? -- 12.2. Is rhythm determined by the syntactic tree? -- 12.3. Stress pattern, template, and their mapping -- 12.4. Is it easier to create poems in Chinese? -- 12.5. Template typology -- 12.6. Approaches to template typology -- 12.7. The prosodic hierarchy -- 12.8. Summary -- 13. CONNECTED SPEECH AND OTHER DIALECTS -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Consonant reduction -- 13.3. De-stressing and rhyme reduction -- 13.4. Vowel devoicing and voiceless syllables -- 13.5. Syllable merger -- 13.6. Phonological processes in other dialects -- 13.6.1. Tone sandhi in Wu dialects -- 13.6.2. Tone sandhi in Min dialects -- 13.6.3. Tone sandhi in Tianjin -- 13.6.4. Rhyme changes -- 13.6.5. Language games -- 13.7. Taiwanese accented Standard Chinese -- 13.7.1. Lexicon -- 13.7.2. Stress -- 13.7.3. Tone -- 13.7.4. Segmental differences -- 13.7.5. Consonant reduction and syllable merger -- 13.8. Summary -- 14. THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- Appendix: Full Syllables in Standard Chinese -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The fully revised edition of San Duanmu's popular introduction to Chinese phonology reflects recent research and theoretical advances in particular work in feature, syllable, and stress. The author has also added a chapter on rhythm in poetry. Reviews of the first edition. 'Every phonologist and student of Chinese linguistics will find something valuable from the book because of its wealth of data and insightful analyses.' Yen-Hwei Lin, Phonology. 'Approachable by anyone with the slightest interest in Chinese languages or phonology.' Jie Zhang Linguist. 'A flowing, integrated approach that addresses - and solves - some of the thorniest perennial problems in Chinese phonology.' Edward J. Vajda Language - ;This is a new and revised edition of the title first published by OUP in 2000. From the reviews of the first edition:. 'This book is a comprehensive study of the phonology of Standard Chinese. Not only is it rich in detailed and amazingly accurate factual description, it also proposes elegant theoretical solutions to many long-standing problems in Chinese phonology, such as word length variation, word order, and the application of the third tone sandhi. Another great strength of the book is that in every chapter, the generative literature on related issues is carefully reviewed. Therefore it can also serve as. a great reference book for the past advances in Chinese generative phonology. Moreover, the book is written in a down-to-earth fashion and is very approachable by anyone with the slightest interest in Chinese languages or phonology but relatively little training in either area.' Jie Zhang, Linguist. 'Because of its accessibility, this book can be used as an introductory textbook for Chinese phonology or Chinese linguistics.... Every phonologist and student of Chinese linguistics will find something valuable from the book because of its
wealth of data and insightful analyses.' Yen-Hwei Lin, Phonology. 'Explanations are based on a variety of perspectives, from traditional views of the phoneme to feature geometry and Optimality Theory, each concisely introduced so that the discussion easy to follow even for the novice. The result is a flowing, integrated approach that addresses - and solves - some of the thorniest perennial problems in Chinese phonology.... Because this user-friendly introduction offers innovative new solutions to old problems, it enjoys the rare distinction of succeeding. both as an essential textbook of Standard Chinese phonology and as an important new theoretical advance in phonological analysis.' Edward J. Vajda, Language -.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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