Temporal and tonal aspects of Chinese syllables: A corpus-based comparative study of mandarin and cantonese

Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 134-154

  Peng, Gang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Isochrony; Mandarin; Temporal compensation; Tone; Tone chart

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750425543     PISSN: 00913723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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