PF Merger would Do, too: A Reply to Zhang (1997)

The analysis for the phenomenon that prepositions may or may not undergo the third tone sandhi in Mandarin in Zhang (1997) is reviewed. She considers that this phenomenon is short of sound coverage and couches her analysis in the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). However, upon scrutiny, Zhang’s a...

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Main Author: David Ta-Chun SHEN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2011-10-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/ala/article/viewFile/29/29