On the Left-/Right-Branching Asymmetry in Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi
On the Left-/Right-Branching Asymmetry in Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi
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论普通话声调三连读的左右分枝不对称性
DOI：
10.3765/amp.v9i0.4881
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Fulang Chen
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作者：
Fulang Chen
在普通话中，当语调3变调（T3S）过程与表达的句法结构相互作用时，观察到左/右分支不对称：具有左分支句法结构的表达只有一个非交替变调模式，其中除了最右边的T3外，其他所有的T3都变成了变调，对于具有右分支句法结构的表达，各种变调模式都是可能的。本文提出，T3S沿着句法韵律匹配匹配理论（Selkirk 2011）的思路，循环自下而上地应用于与表达式的句法结构匹配的韵律结构。匹配短语约束和Strong Strong Start的相互作用，是Selkirk（2011）强启动约束的一个更严格的版本，预测了不同的韵律结构是右分支表达式的可能输出，而对于左分支表达式，唯一可能的输出是左分支韵律结构。当T3S循环自下而上地应用于所提出的韵律结构时，可以推导出右分支表达的各种可能的连读模式和左分支表达的非交替连读模式。
In Mandarin, a left-/right-branching asymmetry is observed when the Tone 3 Sandhi (T3S) process interacts with the syntactic structure of an expression: while expressions that have a left-branching syntactic structure only have a non-alternating sandhi pattern in which all but the rightmost T3 is changed to the sandhi tone, for expressions that have a right-branching syntactic structure various sandhi patterns are possible. This paper proposes that T3S applies cyclically bottom-up on a prosodic structure matched from the syntactic structure of an expression, along the lines of the Match Theory of syntactic-prosodic constituency correspondence (Selkirk 2011). The interaction of Match Phrase constraints and Strong Strong Start, which is a more restricted version of Selkirk’s (2011) Strong Start constraint, predicts that different prosodic structures are possible outputs for a right-branching expression, while for a left-branching expression the only possible output is a left-branching prosodic structure. The various possible sandhi patterns for a right-branching expression and the non-alternating sandhi pattern for a left-branching expression are derived when T3S applies cyclically bottom-up on the proposed prosodic structures.