Saturday 1 November 2014

Tones and the modulation of some spoken words’ tones in contexts



Tones and the modulation of some spoken words’ tones in contexts


Youxuan Wang
SLAS,
University of Portsmouth
2014-11-01


The tones of Chinese spoken words can be represented in terms of music notes. Each spoken word in context has a fixed tone. You need to remember its tone as described in dictionaries (and glossaries) and you should also remember the rules for its modulation in certain context.


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