Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics

English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people’s daily lives. Mandarin Loanwords demonstrates how English phonemes map into Mandarin phonemes through Mandarin loanwords adaptation. The consonantal adaptations are the most important in the analyses, and vowel adaptation and tonal adaptation are also considered. Through the analysis, it is proven that the functions of phonology and phonetics play a significant...

This book centres on theoretical issues of the phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of various sizes or levels. Tone sandhi refers to tonal changes that occur in a sequence of adjacent syllables or words. The size of this sequence, or the...