Modern Cantonese Phonology
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Modern Cantonese Phonology

  1. 606 pages
  2. English
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Modern Cantonese Phonology

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. List of abbreviations
  6. List of maps and figures
  7. List of tables
  8. Introduction, the Cantonese language
  9. Chapter 1, Cantonese consonants and vowels
  10. 1.0 Introduction to articulatory phonetics
  11. 1.1 Initial and final consonants
  12. 1.2 Vowels
  13. 1.3 Cantonese rimes
  14. 1.4 Alternation of homorganic final consonants: -m/-p, -n/-t, -ŋ/-k
  15. 1.5 Literary and colloquial rimes with short and long vowels
  16. 1.6 Conclusion to Chapter 1
  17. Chapter 2, Cantonese tones
  18. 2.0 Introduction to tone
  19. 2.1 Auditory description of Cantonese tone contours
  20. 2.2 Cantonese tone categories
  21. 2.3 Acoustic analysis of Cantonese tone contours
  22. 2.4 F0 displays of Cantonese tone contours
  23. 2.5 Chao tone letters and F0 values
  24. 2.6 Differences in descriptions of Cantonese tone contours
  25. 2.7 Macao tone contours
  26. 2.8 Cantonese lexical tone and sentence intonation
  27. 2.9 Historical development of Cantonese tone categories
  28. 2.10 Cantonese tone sandhi
  29. 2.11 Cantonese pi:n-jɐĢ„m ? ? ā€˜changed tonesā€™
  30. 2.12 Conclusion to Chapter 2
  31. Figure 2.3, F0 displays of Cantonese tone contours
  32. Chapter 3, Cantonese syllables and words
  33. 3.0 Introduction
  34. 3.1 Cantonese morphology
  35. 3.2 Cantonese sound symbolism and meaning
  36. 3.3 The Expanding and contracting Cantonese syllable
  37. 3.4 The Expanding and contracting Cantonese syllabary
  38. 3.5 English loanwords in Cantonese
  39. 3.6 Cantonese syllabary
  40. 3.7 Conclusion to Chapter 3
  41. Postscript, Cantonese in the 21st century
  42. Notes to Chapter 1
  43. Notes to Chapter 2
  44. Notes to Chapter 3
  45. References
  46. Appendix 1, Comparative table of Cantonese romanization systems
  47. Appendix 2, Tone contour displays for second group of Cantonese speakers
  48. Appendix 3, Cantonese syllabary
  49. Appendix 4.1, Colloquial Cantonese morphosyllables and morphosyllables used in transliterating English loanwords
  50. Appendix 4.2, Colloquial and loanword morphosyllables with consonant clusters with -l-
  51. Appendix 5, Cantonese-English pi:n-jɐĢ„m ? ? glossary
  52. Appendix 6, Glossary of linguistic terms
  53. Author index
  54. Language and subject index