1st/2nd tone—2nd tone (changing to 1st tone)—strong final character: 2nd tone tone sandhi question

By 歐博思
March 4, 2016 at 07:09 AM in Speaking and Listening Skills

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Posted March 4, 2016 at 07:09 AM (edited)

A tone change rule from Chao, Yuen Ren (1968). A Grammar of Spoken Chinese (2nd ed.). University of California Press via Wiki:

Second tone, or rising tone, or more specifically high-rising, is a sound that rises from middle to high pitch (like in the English "What?!"). In a three-syllable expression, if the first syllable has first or second tone and the final syllable is not weak, then a second tone on the middle syllable may change to first tone.

Does anyone have any additional information about this second-tone-to-first-tone tone sandhi rule?

edit: came across another thread here

Edited March 4, 2016 at 07:21 AM by 歐博思

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