Download or read book The Phonology of Standard Chinese written by San Duanmu and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive account of and introduction to Chinese phonology. It covers several areas that were previously thought to be either absent in Chinese, or not phonological issues, e.g. stress, the definition of the word, the word length problem, and the word order problem. It also offers new analyses of several traditional topics, such as the phonemic inventory, allophonic variation, syllable structure, the [r] suffix, tone, and Tone 3 Sandhi. Unnecessary jargon is avoided and relevant theories are introduced in a non-technical way, so that the contents are accessible to a broad audience.