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- Title
CONSTRUCTION SENSITIVITY IN PINGYAO TONE SANDHI.
- Authors
Hui-shan Lin
- Abstract
This paper investigates tone sandhi phenomena in Pingyao, a Jin dialect spoken in Shanxi province in China. Pingyao tone sandhi is special in that tone sandhi in bi-syllabic strings is construction sensitive, but tone sandhi in tri-syllabic strings is not fully conditioned by construction types. Based on Optimality Theory (OT), this paper proposes analyses for bi-tonal and tri-tonal sandhi in Pingyao. We show that while bi-tonal sandhi can be accounted for by assuming that there are different grammars associated with different construction types, the lack of construction sensitivity in certain tri-syllabic strings suggests that the association between construction types and phonological grammars can be sacrificed to comply with a higher demand. In Pingyao, the higher demand is to avoid having a tri-tonal string with marked tone sandhi domain from being associated with conflicting grammars.
- Subjects
PINGYAO (China); CHINA; SANDHI; CHINESE language; LINGUISTIC usage; GRAMMAR
- Publication
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2012, Vol 10, Issue 1, p143
- ISSN
1729-4649
- Publication type
Article