Re: THEORY: Sandhi

Chinese has what I've most often seen called tone
sandhi.  The tones of some syllables can change in
juncture with other syllables.  In Mandarin, it's
fairly simple.  A third tone appearing before another
third tone will change to second tone.  If there are
more than two third tones in a row, all but the last
will change to second tone.  Tone sandhi can be much
more complicated.  In the Min dialects (of Fujian and
Taiwan), almost every tone can change into another
tone in juncture.

-Weiben

--- Dan Jones <dan@...> wrote:
> Cheng Zhong Su escreva:
> >Answer: It seemed no rules to apply the phonteic
> >system for mandarin language, some one beleive
> there
>
> <snip>
>
> Eh? Ease-of-learning appeared how? FWIW, I suppose
> liason, celtic-style
> mutations, elesions etc. could be considered forms
> of sandhi- it's just
> that sandhi seems to be confined to used in Sanskrit
> AFAIK. Apart form the
> one mentioned, are there any other languages which
> explicitly use the term
> "sandhi" to describe phonetic changes?
>
> Dan
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> semo la flamma, semo la casea
> semo la tuta, semo la cambea
>
> We are the spark, we are the flame
> We are the people, we are the change

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