A Unified Account of Mandarin Tone 3 and Tone 4 Sandhi
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Traditional analyses viewing tone 3 sandhi as categorical change fail to account for differences between sandhi tone 3 and tone 2. A new analysis claiming that tone 3 sandhi is a tonal reduction is proposed within the OT framework. In the present analysis both tone 3 sandhi and tone 4 sandhi are viewed as tonal reductions and the same basic set of constraints are used to accommodate both tone sandhi phenomena.
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