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The Cantonese final: An exercise in indigenous analysis
粤方言韵母：一个用本土方法分析的尝试
Timothy Light 黎天睦
Abstract 摘要
The traditional division of the Chinese syllable into initial, final, and tone is examined. Distributional criteria are used to justify this analysis as more applicable to the Cantonese syllable than a strict segmental analysis. The notion of transpositional devices, which mediate between a foreign linguistic type and the native analytical tradition, is introduced. Rimemic analysis is introduced as a transpositional device particularly applicable to Cantonese. A detailed analysis of the Cantonese final is given, and the implications of this language-specific orientation for cross-language analyses are discussed.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics volume 5 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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