Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: on-going loss of low tone breathy voice in Shanghai Chinese
This study focuses on the on-going disappearance of low tone breathiness in Shanghai Chinese. In the change from a voicing contrast to a tone register contrast in Sinitic languages, the ancient voiced series was characterised by a breathy voice quality, which remained as a secondary and redundant cu...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Papers in Historical Phonology |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/1698 |