San Duanmu

List of John Benjamins publications for which San Duanmu plays a role.

Journal

CINITIAL has the strongest effect on F0 among the four factors in cases of both pooled and individual data. Such an effect indicates that there is a strong correlation between the initial consonant type and tone: H following aspirated and tense consonants and LH following other consonants. Vowel… read more
SUMMARY A common conception of Chinese is that most of its words are monosyllabic historically but disyllabic in modern times. Since Chinese lost over 50% of its syllables in the past 1000 years, a standard explanation for the increase of disyllabic words is that they are created to avoid homonyms.… read more
Duanmu, San 1999 Alignment and the Cycle are DifferentThe Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory, Hermans, Ben and Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), pp. 129–152 | Article