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Contents
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11 Initial and final consonants | 16 |
12 Vowels | 33 |
13 Cantonese rimes | 48 |
Chapter 3 Cantonese syllables and words | 279 |
31 Cantonese morphology | 281 |
32 Cantonese sound symbolism and meaning | 296 |
33 The Expanding and contracting Cantonese syllable | 314 |
34 The Expanding and contracting Cantonese syllabary | 326 |
35 English loanwords in Cantonese | 347 |
36 Cantonese syllabary | 406 |
37 Conclusion to Chapter 3 | 427 |
mp nt ŋk | 92 |
15 Literary and colloquial rimes with short and long vowels | 94 |
16 Conclusion to Chapter 1 | 107 |
Chapter 2 Cantonese tones | 109 |
21 Auditory description of Cantonese tone contours | 114 |
22 Cantonese tone categories | 118 |
23 Acoustic analysis of Cantonese tone contours | 123 |
24 F0 displays of Cantonese tone contours | 131 |
25 Chao tone letters and F0 values | 143 |
27 Macao tone contours | 145 |
28 Cantonese lexical tone and sentence intonation | 148 |
29 Historical development of Cantonese tone categories | 154 |
210 Cantonese tone sandhi | 162 |
njɐ̄m ? ? changed tones | 165 |
212 Conclusion to Chapter 2 | 248 |
Figure 23 F0 displays of Cantonese tone contours | 250 |
Postscript Cantonese in the 21st century | 429 |
Notes to Chapter 1 | 435 |
Notes to Chapter 2 | 441 |
Notes to Chapter 3 | 444 |
References | 449 |
Appendix 1 Comparative table of Cantonese romanization systems | 471 |
Appendix 2 Tone contour displays for second group of Cantonese speakers | 476 |
Appendix 3 Cantonese syllabary | 486 |
Appendix 41 Colloquial Cantonese morphosyllables and morphosyllables used in transliterating English loanwords | 488 |
Appendix 42 Colloquial and loanword morphosyllables with consonant clusters with l | 497 |
njɐ̄m ? ? glossary | 499 |
Appendix 6 Glossary of linguistic terms | 539 |
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Other editions - View all
Modern Cantonese Phonology Robert Stuart Bauer,Robert S. Bauer,Paul K. Benedict Limited preview - 1997 |