Title: On the Light Sound of Shimen Dialect in Hunan and its Variation
Abstract:In Shimen dialect,every word has light and heavy pattern corresponding to its grammatical structure.The light sound here refers to the light unstressed sound.In Shimen dialect,the light sound is not r...In Shimen dialect,every word has light and heavy pattern corresponding to its grammatical structure.The light sound here refers to the light unstressed sound.In Shimen dialect,the light sound is not restricted by heavy light pattern.Light sound variation is mainly found in the variation of the shape of the original tone.The variation of tone caused by the light sound is the only form of tone variation in this dialect.The tone value resulting from the tone variation is related to the original tone and irrelative to the syllables around it.They can be grouped into grammatical variation,variation in classifying new and old words and different meaning variation,etc.The structural tone variation in grammatical variation is the mainstream in light sound tone variation in Shimen dialect.All these different light sound tone variation have a tendency to combine together.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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