Re: THEORY: Sandhi / Mandarin
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 18:55 |
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:38:56 -0500, Johnson, Anna <AJohnson@...>
wrote:
[...]
>That's how it was introduced to me in my first-year Mandarin and my
>first-year Korean class; Sandhi occurs in both languages. Yes, in Mandarin,
>there is Sandhi, although it is known as "tone Sandhi"
[...]
Besides tonal sandhi proper, it has: "erization", tone reduction (the
"light tone"), vowel reduction, and some other sandhi-like processes
(some of them non-phonological, like intervocalic voicing).
Basilius