The microprosodics of tone sandhi in shanghai disyllabic compounds

This paper examines the F0 variations during tone sandhi due to various prosodic factors such as phonation type, length, stress and pitch height. It will be shown that the F0 height and shape of the second syllable (S2) in disyllabic words are determined by the interaction of four conditions: the intervocalic consonant (C2) voicing, the S2 Truncation, the F0 height of S1, and stress assignment. group. Using disyllabic words without C2, 1998 demonstrates smoothly flowing F0 for Shanghai tonal rightward spreading in both and terms. These can be taken to reflect the underlying tension of the vocal cords without influence from supraglottal effects and represent a baseline in terms of which the perturbations observed on items with C2 can be understood.