X-slots, feature trees, and the Chinese sound inventory: a twenty-first century take on Mandarin phonological structure. .(The Phonology of Standard ... The Journal of the American Oriental Society

This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 6429 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: San Duanmu's Phonology of Standard Chinese is the first book-length English-language treatise on the synchronic sound system of Mandarin Chinese in twenty years. The author incorporates linguistic theories developed since the 1970s, such as autosegmental phonology, feature geometry, and optimality theory, to give an updated and much more accurate account of the segmental and suprasegmental units of Standard Chinese, while at the same time constructing an original model of stress, tone, and syllable structure. He provides in the process unique insights to age-old controversies such as missing combinations in the Mandarin syllabary, the nature of the Mandarin third tone and Tone 3 Sandhi, and why Chinese morphology is sensitive to the number of syllables in an expression. Duanmu s work is a marriage of Western phonetic/phonological science and Chinese laboratory and survey data--one that constitutes a substantial advance in our understanding of the structure of Modern Standard Chinese.

Citation Details
Title: X-slots, feature trees, and the Chinese sound inventory: a twenty-first century take on Mandarin phonological structure. .(The Phonology of Standard Chinese)(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Chris Wen-Chao Li
Publication:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 122 Issue: 3 Page: 553(9)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale