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“Tense” and “Lax” Stops in Korean
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-01)
Korean is thought to be unique in having three kinds of voiceless stops: aspirated /p h t h k h /, tense /p* t* k*/, and lax /p t k/. The contrast between tense and lax stops raises two theoretical problems. First, to ...
Rime length, stress, and association domains
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-01)
Every regular Chinese syllable has a syllable tone (the tone we get when the syllable is read in isolation). In some Chinese languages, the tonal pattern of a multisyllabic expression is basically a concatenation of the ...
Metrical Structure and Tone: Evidence from Mandarin and Shanghai
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-01)
A well-known problem in Chinese phonology is that in some dialects most regular syllables keep their underlying tones, but in others the initial syllable determines the tonal pattern of a multisyllabic domain. Mandarin and ...