Tone Change Pattern and Prosodic Morphology of Reduplication in Chinese Dialects——A Case Study of Sound-Divided-Words in Fuzhou Dialect
The Chinese dialects often exhibit three types of fixed tone change in reduplication,forming a prosodic pattern characterized by high-low tones as well as strong-weak stresses under non-phonetic conditions to emphasize pragmatic expression.This paper takes the fixed tone change found in Fuzhou dia-lect reduplication words as an example to summarize their characteristics from a prosodic perspective.It deduces and explains how these fixed tone change are generated by combining relevant constraint rules with an aim to explore the relationship between reduplication tone change and stress patterns in Chinese dialect reduplication,thereby enhancing the understanding of the typological description regarding stress-tone relationships.The results demonstrate that the fixed low tones observed in Fuzhou dialect reduplication o-riginate from floating low tones in underlying representation,which are influenced by various prosodic constraints before giving rise to distinct tonemes within surface reduplication.
reduplicationfixed tone changestrong-weak stressprosodic morphology
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