Identity Preservation in Hakha-Lai Tone Sandhi

This paper examines the tone sandhi phenomenon in the Tibeto-Berman language of Hakha-Lai, which is special for the complex interactions among its elementary rules. The rules interactions in Hakha-Lai lead to both left-to right and right-to-left rule directionalities in sequences of three or more to...

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Main Author: Hui-shan Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Crane Publishing Co 2005-12-01
Series:Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
Online Access:http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume3-2/01.pdf