Processes In The Production Of Taiwanese Tone Sandhi:An Acoustic Phonetic Study

【摘要】：正This study concerns the on-line production processes of tone alternation in Taiwanese(SouthMin Chinese),using acoustic-phonetic experimental method.1.1 Taiwanese tone sandhiTaiwanese has seven lexical tones:Yinping,Yangping,Yinshang,Yinqu,Yangqu,Yinru,andYangru.Each of these tones has two alternative forms,one appearing in juncture position,theother in context position,a phenomenon called Taiwanese tone sandhi.Juncture tones are foundutterance-finally and context tones are found word-internally(as within compounds orreduplicated forms).A summary of this tone altetnation is given below based on the dialect ofChiayi County in Taiwan.(Underlined tones are short tones.)