Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Tonal Neutralization
6. Towards a Typology of Postlexical Tonal Neutralizations 7
7. Postlexical Tonal Neutralizations in Kagoshima Japanese 27
8. Tonal Neutralization and Lexical Category in Nagasaki Japanese 58
9. Tonal Neutralization in the Ikema Dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan 83
10. Accentual Neutralization in Japanese Dialects 129
11. Chinese Tonal Neutralization across Dialects: From Typological, Geographical, and Diachronic Perspectives 156
12. Part II: Tonal Change
13. Towards a Typology of Tone System Changes 203
14. Common Tone Sandhi Processes across Sino-Tibetan Languages 223
15. Phonetic and Systemic Biases in Tonal Contour Changes in Bangkok Thai 249
16. Bilingualism and Accent Changes in Kagoshima Japanese 279
17. From Nyoro to Tooro: Historical and Phonetic Accounts of Tone Merger 330
18. In Defense of a Dialect-contact Scenario of the Central Franconian Tonogenesis 350
19. Index 380