Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned to individual words or morphemes, based on the pronunciation of adjacent words or morphemes. This change typically simplifies a bidirectional tone into a one-directional tone.

2025年1月12日 · They’re also sometimes called tone sandhi, which is a general term used by linguists to describe tone changes that occur in response to the way adjacent words or syllables are pronounced. Tone changes in Mandarin Chinese are contextual.

Also known as: tone sandhi and 变调规则 (biàndiào guīzé). There are certain circumstances under which a Chinese word or character's normal tone will regularly change to a specific different tone. These tone changes (also called tone sandhi) must be learned in order to pronounce Chinese correctly.

2023年4月21日 · Tone sandhi, a phonological process by which lexical tones exhibit contextually determined alternation, is commonly observed in tone languages around the world, from Bantu to Zapotec.

Most tonal languages have tone sandhi in which the tones of words alter according to certain rules. An example is the behavior of Mandarin Chinese; in isolation, tone 3 is often pronounced as a falling-rising tone.

2010年12月6日 · An explanation of the tone change rules in Mandarin Chinese, also known as tone sandhi. These change tones based on what's around them, and make the language flow.

2016年10月19日 · Before we go into the specifics of how tones can get modified, you may be still processing the fact that sometimes tones change in conversation and that a term like tone sandhi exists. First, learning tone sandhi (aka the rules governing tone changes) is essential in Mandarin Chinese. Why is that?

2024年7月11日 · Three essential tone sandhi rules that every Mandarin learner should know: the tone sandhi of "一 (yī)", "不 (bù)", and the third tone sandhi.

Among the Chinese lexical tones, the 3 rd tone displays the most variation, being pronounced in three different ways depending on the surrounding tones. This is commonly known as tone sandhi. Here is a quick reminder to help you visualize the differences in the tones.

In Mandarin, when two third tones are read together, the first third tone is pronounced as a second tone, but the tone mark remains a third tone. This tone change is called Tone Sandhi. For instance, Your browser does not support the audio element.