An acoustically-based description is given of the isolation tones and rightdominant tone sandhi in disyllabic words of a male speaker of the Chinese Oūjiāng 甌江 Wú 吳 dialect of Wénchéng 文成 . His seven isolation tones show typical Wu complexity, comprising two mid-level, two rising, two falling-rising and one depressed level pitch shapes. Typical too is his three-way voicing contrast in syllable-...

Susan Bauer-Wu, DNSc, RN, is the director of Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. As the recipient of the 2005 ONS Foundation Mara Mogensen Flaherty Memorial Lectureship, Bauer-Wu presented this article at the Oncology Nursing Society 30th Annual Congress in Orlando, FL. Bauer-Wu is the 24th recipient of this lectureship, which recogni...