Re: THEORY: Sandhi

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote> >
Whats sandhi?
> Sandhi is a Sanskrit grammatical term for the
> phenomenon where the
> last sounds in one word and the first sounds in the
> next merge or
> otherwise influence each other.
> In a sense it's most of the normal rules of
> word-internal phonological
> development, applied to whole spoken sentences ---
> but then poor
> students have to learn to apply all these rules to
> the dictionary
> forms of the words in order to write anything
> correctly.
> From Sanskrit, the word sandhi has been borrowed to
> denote similar
> phenomena in other languages. For example, the rules
> for combination
> of tones in Taiwanese Chinese languages are called
> tone sandhi.
Answer: It seemed no rules to apply the phonteic
system for mandarin language, some one beleive there
are, but when you find in fact all the 1200 different
phonetic typse were separate individuals, you may
understand they can combined each other without any
limit. In English artcle 'a' in front of a vowel has
to be changed as 'an' but in mandarine, you don't need
change any thing. As for hard to learn, it will depend
on what we want. If we want knowing more in life time,
we has to detect more information in every single oral
actions. If we just want deal with everyday life, then
the Phoenician language shall be the best choice, for
it even regardless vowels.  In this issue, it may be
no free lunch. After all, when we used to the system,
it want be a hard job, some tone language children
even don't know what is a 'tone'.
Su Cheng Zhong

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