It takes the average reader 9 hours and 22 minutes to read Tone Sandhi by Matthew Y. Chen
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Matthew Chen's study, first published in 2000, offers a most comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide repertoire of tones which undergo often surprising changes when they are connected in speech flow. The term tone sandhi refers to this tonal alternation. Chen examines tone sandhi phenomena in detail across a variety of Chinese dialects. He explores a range of important theoretical issues such as the nature of tonal representation, the relation of tone to accent, the prosodic domain of sandhi rules, and the interface between...
Tone Sandhi by Matthew Y. Chen is 554 pages long, and a total of 140,716 words.
This makes it 187% the length of the average book. It also has 172% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 48 minutes to read Tone Sandhi aloud.
Tone Sandhi is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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