An Acoustic and Non-linear Analysis of Tone Sandhi and Neutral Tone in Yicheng Chinese;

The Phonetics and Phonology of the Neutral Tone in Yiyang Chinese;

The Phonetic and Phonological Properties of the Neutral Tone in Changsha Chinese;

The paper makes exhaustive description and analysis on pitch shifting and neutral tones of Shandong Leling dialect,and open out its rule for the sake of reflecting the dialect s characteristic.

It is not to be ignored to the teaching of neutral tones in order to popularize and standardize the standard Chinese pronunciation.

Relatively little attention has been paid to the diachronic study on the neutral tone in Chinese.

This paper compared the words with the neutral tone in Beijing and Tianjin dialects.

However,the neutral tone is treated differently in The Program for Implementing St.

This text enumerates Tangshan City two words with three kinds of circumstances for connecting changed tone and the second syllable changes into the distributing of light tone circumstance, and that simply expatiates the rule of connecting changed tone in Tangshan dialect.

It proves that indistinction is the fundamental property of light tone,and indistinction is the basical property in spoken language.

The broad weakening rule weakens the original 6 character tones into 4 light tones whereas the narrow weakening rule reduces the original 6 tones mainly into light Yinping tone or light Yinqu tone.