Guangdonghua daodi you 9 ge haishi 6 ge sheng1diao4?
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Guangdonghua daodi you 9 ge haishi 6 ge sheng1diao4?
Guangdonghua daodi you 9 ge haishi 6 ge sheng1diao4?
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Dylan Sung
Re: Guangdonghua daodi you 9 ge haishi 6 ge sheng1diao4?
It depends.
The traditional method of classing the tones is based on traditional Chinese philological practice where the Ru Sheng or Entering tone class is split into three levels of pitch. These pitch levels also closely match the pitch levels of other Cantonese tones. The only distinguishing phonological feature of the Ru Sheng class of tones is the ending. The ending of Ru Sheng syllables end in /p,t,k/, so you can always tell what a Ru Sheng syllable is. All other syllables not having these endings are classed amongst the other tones.
The remaining three of the traditional tone classes are all split into two levels, a higher and a lower level. Since one can distribute the Ru sheng tone pitches as "allotones" into these six, then you could argue that there are six basic tones, but nine if you wish to distinguish the Ru Sheng class of syllables.
Dyl.
The traditional method of classing the tones is based on traditional Chinese philological practice where the Ru Sheng or Entering tone class is split into three levels of pitch. These pitch levels also closely match the pitch levels of other Cantonese tones. The only distinguishing phonological feature of the Ru Sheng class of tones is the ending. The ending of Ru Sheng syllables end in /p,t,k/, so you can always tell what a Ru Sheng syllable is. All other syllables not having these endings are classed amongst the other tones.
The remaining three of the traditional tone classes are all split into two levels, a higher and a lower level. Since one can distribute the Ru sheng tone pitches as "allotones" into these six, then you could argue that there are six basic tones, but nine if you wish to distinguish the Ru Sheng class of syllables.
Dyl.
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Xiexie. Name zai jiaoxue shang yong 6 ge shengdiao jiu biji
Xiexie. Name zai jiaoxue shang yong 6 ge shengdiao jiu bijiao jiandan le.
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Dylan Sung
Re: Guangdonghua daodi you 9 ge haishi 6 ge sheng1diao4?
Well, in actual fact, though one can reduce it to 6 tones, one must keep in mind that the Ru sheng or Entering tone characters ending in /p,t,k/ are short clipped syllables, and they are therefore shorter than the non-Ru type characters. Other than these isolated syllable pronunciations, when syllables come together, they may exhibit a change in their tonal pitch. This is known as sandhi. Mandarin exhibits this by the unstressed "fifth" tone which is usually left unmarked in hanyu pinyin. Cantonese shows tone sandhi as does other Chinese dialects.
Dyl.
Dyl.