On the Distribution of Neutral Tone in Southern Min: LCC and Beyond

The aim of this paper is to address an often-overlooked topic in Southern Min tonology: neutral tone. We show that the tone sandhi domain not always isomorphic with XP syntax or a phonological phrase. In fact, may be smaller than what has been predicted, as evidenced phrase-final functional morphemes well rhythmic effect. propose defined by constituent Tone Sandhi Domain (TSD, τ) between p-phrase and p-word. A TSD required bear final prominence, only p-word, mapped from contentive focused element syntax, can “prominence-bearing unit.”