The Phonology of Standard Chinese (Phonology of the World's Languages)
`Review from previous edition The book will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the study of Chinese phonology, and it has set a high standard for researchers in Chinese phonology to follow.' Linguist List 12.1726`the book is written in a down-to-earth fashion and is very approachable by anyone with the slightest interest in Chinese languages or phonology but relatively little training in either area.' Linguist List 12.1726`Another great strength of the book is that in every chapter, the generative literature on related issues is carefully reviewed.' Linguist List 12.1726`a comprehensive study of the phonology of Standard Chinese. Not only is it rich in detailed and amazingly accurate factual description, it also proposes elegant theoretical solutions to many long-standing problems in Chinese phonology.' Linguist List 12.1726`strives to provide both accurate factual descriptions and theoretical analyses, at the same time avoiding esoteric jargon specific to historical Chinese philology or theoretical phonology. As the book succeeds in all accounts, it should appeal to a wide range of readership.' Linguist List 12.1726`"Phonology of Standard Chinese" is accessible to anyone with an elementary command of descriptive linguistics, and at the same time is full of things that will interest specialists in contemporary phonological theory, as well as engaging current research issues in Chinese linguistics. Topics of special interest include the nature of the word in Chinese, word stress, the conditioning of third-tone sandhi, and the interaction of phonological and syntactic constraints in lexical choice and word order restrictions. In each case, Duanmu's book presents a clear and accessible review of the facts, a survey of descriptive and theoretical proposals, and his own analysis, in which his theory of Chinese word stress plays a key explanatory role. This book should energize Chinese linguistics, as Chinese-language specialists evaluate Duanmu's descriptive generalizations, and the rest of the field explores their implications for linguistic theories.' Mark Liberman, University of`An ambitious work, with good descriptive coverage, a selective summary of previous analyses, and sketches of lots of interesting new proposals. Seems likely to become a useful reference for non-Sinologists.' Moira Yip, University of California, Irvine--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.