Modern Cantonese phonology / edited by Robert S. Bauer, Paul K. Benedict.

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Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of maps and figures -- List of tables -- Introduction, the Cantonese language -- Chapter 1, Cantonese consonants and vowels -- 1.0 Introduction to articulatory phonetics -- 1.1 Initial and final consonants -- 1.2 Vowels -- 1.3 Cantonese rimes -- 1.4 Alternation of homorganic final consonants: -m/-p, -n/-t, -Å?/-k -- 1.5 Literary and colloquial rimes with short and long vowels -- 1.6 Conclusion to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2, Cantonese tones -- 2.0 Introduction to tone

2.1 Auditory description of Cantonese tone contours2.2 Cantonese tone categories -- 2.3 Acoustic analysis of Cantonese tone contours -- 2.4 F0 displays of Cantonese tone contours -- 2.5 Chao tone letters and F0 values -- 2.6 Differences in descriptions of Cantonese tone contours -- 2.7 Macao tone contours -- 2.8 Cantonese lexical tone and sentence intonation -- 2.9 Historical development of Cantonese tone categories -- 2.10 Cantonese tone sandhi -- 2.11 Cantonese pi:n-jÉ?Ì?m?? â€?changed tonesâ€? -- 2.12 Conclusion to Chapter 2

Figure 2.3, F0 displays of Cantonese tone contoursChapter 3, Cantonese syllables and words -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Cantonese morphology -- 3.2 Cantonese sound symbolism and meaning -- 3.3 The Expanding and contracting Cantonese syllable -- 3.4 The Expanding and contracting Cantonese syllabary -- 3.5 English loanwords in Cantonese -- 3.6 Cantonese syllabary -- 3.7 Conclusion to Chapter 3 -- Postscript, Cantonese in the 21st century -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- References

Appendix 1, Comparative table of Cantonese romanization systemsAppendix 2, Tone contour displays for second group of Cantonese speakers -- Appendix 3, Cantonese syllabary -- Appendix 4.1, Colloquial Cantonese morphosyllables and morphosyllables used in transliterating English loanwords -- Appendix 4.2, Colloquial and loanword morphosyllables with consonant clusters with -l- -- Appendix 5, Cantonese-English pi:n-jÉ?Ì?m?? glossary -- Appendix 6, Glossary of linguistic terms -- Author index -- Language and subject index

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