Revisiting Tone Sandhi Domain in Xiamen Chinese

Authors

  • Yaqing Cao University of California at Santa Cruz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v9i0.5184

Keywords:

Xiamen Chinese, Tone Sandhi Domain, Match, Align/Wrap

Abstract

The tone sandhi domain in Xiamen Chinese was examined to demonstrate that Match gives a much elegant explanation than Align/Wrap because it allows for subcategorization. MATCHNONMIN and MATCHMAX, when interacting with general MATCHSP, are enough to predict the tone sandhi domain in Xiamen Chinese. Align/Wrap, on the other hand, needs a prosodic well-formedness constraint such as BINARITY to dominate Align/Wrap. Altogether, we take this as a piece of evidence for the richer and fine-grained prosodic subcategorizations.The comparison between Match and Align/Wrap is conducted in the SPOT and the automatic evaluation of all the possible candidates is done in the OTworkplace. 

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Published

2022-08-05

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Supplemental Proceedings