Two Constraints on Tonal Derivation in Chinese

This paper aims to further examine two working constraints on tonal derivation proposed in some recent generative studies on Changting, namely One Step Principle (OSP) and Moving Windows Constraint (MWC). Our extension of the scope of discussion to other Chinese dialects leads to the necessity of pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hui-chuan Hsu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Crane Publishing Co 2005-12-01
Series:Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
Online Access:http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume3-2/04.pdf