| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 語言學系 === 84 === This thesis explores three kinds of special tone sandhi in
Southern Min: (i) reduplicated adjective tone sandhi, (ii) -a
suffix tone sandhi, and (iii)neutral tone sandhi.
Reduplicated adjective tone sandhi is analyzed within the
framework of prosodic morphology (McCarthy and Prince 1986,
1990). Unlike Chiang's (1992)suffix syllable template, the
author argues that AAA is reduplicated by theprefixation of an
iambic template. Following Yip (1980), tone may play a
morphological role. -a suffix is discussed from the
perspective of lehor argues that AAxical phonology. According
to the morphological functions figured from Lien (1995) and
Huang (1988), six categories of the suffix -a are distinguished.
Through the interactions of morphological and phonological
rules, the concepts of levelordering and strict cyclicity in
lexical phonology are proved necessary in this language.
Neutral tone sandhi is investigated in terms of prosodic
phonology. Theauthor argues that the domain of neutral tone
sandhi is a left-headed phonological phrase, which is more
economical than previous syntactic approaches (Cheng 1968; Hong
1995). There are two neutral tone rules: thefloting low tone
spreading and the base tone spreading. They are differentin
spreading node, direction, order and so on. The analysis
supports Yip'stwo-tiered tonal geometry andcallsfor the need of
prosodic Hierachy in thelinguistic system.
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