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A Phonological Analysis of the Szechuanese Monosyllable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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A RECONSIDERATION of the material used for my article ‘The monosyllable in Szechuanese’1 in the light of the technique of prosodic analysis being developed in the Department of Phonetics of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2 has led me to believe that it is susceptible of a more rigorous and satisfying treatment, in which some of the apparently eccentric features take a normal place.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1956

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References

page 556 note 1BSOAS, XII, 1, 1947, 197213Google Scholar (hereafter referred to as ‘MS’).

page 556 note 2See Firth, J.R., ‘Sounds and prosodies’, TPS, 1948, 127–52.Google Scholar

page 557 note 1The speaker referred to Tone 5 as ‘upper 2’.

page 557 note 2In the examples, the phonological formula is given first, followed in brackets by the ‘systematic transcription’ used in ‘MS’.