A while ago, John Pasden posted on his Sinosplice blog an article about an alternative representation of tones for chinese in connected speech. I’ve been re-thinking about that post, and I find the reversal between “third tone” and “half-third tone” to be very intriguing. We all start learning mandarin with a third tone represented as […]
A new view of the third tone in spoken mandarin
January 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on A new view of the third tone in spoken mandarin
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