Assertion: dipping tone | /r/HasProperty | reduced to simple low tone
Facets:
value: in mandarin chinese
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In Mandarin Chinese, for example, a dipping tone between two other tones is reduced to a simple low tone, which otherwise does not occur in Mandarin Chinese, whereas if two dipping tones occur in a row, the first becomes a rising tone, indistinguishable from other rising tones in the language.