Chapter 3 Syllables and words

Chapters in this book

1. I-L I
2. Chapter 1 Cantonese consonants and vowels 1
3. Chapter 2 Cantonese tones 109
4. Chapter 3 Syllables and words 279
5. Postscript, Cantonese in the 21st century 429
6. Notes to Chapter 1, Cantonese consonants and vowels 435
7. Notes to Chapter 2, Cantonese tones 441
8. References 449
9. Appendix 1. Comparative table of Cantonese romanization systems 471
10. Appendix 2. Tone contour displays for second group of Cantonese speakers. 476
11. Appendix 3. Cantonese syllabary 486
12. Appendix 4.1, Colloquial Cantonese morphosyllables and morphosyllables used in transliterating English loanwo 488
13. Appendix 4.2 Colloquial and loanword morphosyllables with consonant clusters with -1-. 497
14. Appendix 5, Cantonese-English pi:n-j ̅ɐm Glossary 499
15. Appendix 6, Glossary of Linguistic Terms 539
16. Author index 551
17. Language and subject index 555