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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,</span></p><font face="宋体">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Actually, "entering
tone" of one of the four tones in Chinese. From phonetic and phonological
point of view, it is rather a syllable ended by an occlusive -p, -t and -k than
a real tone. But since the <i style>Qièyùn</i> </span><span style="font-family:宋体">切韵</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> (first dictionary of rhymes, 601 or 602 AD) which categorized it as a one
of the four tones, the term “entering tone” has been preserved in Chinese linguistic
works. Today Chinese dialects are classified according to the evolution of “entering
tone”, a criterion established by Li Rong (1920-2002). </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Xu Dan</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left" class="MsoNormal" align="left">
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</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/21 Robbins Burling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rburling@umich.edu" target="_blank">rburling@umich.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
Kristine Hildebrandt: Since Seino v.b. mentioned my work with Garo, let me weigh in.<div> I have heard of the "entering tone" and I suppose that it is one of the four tones of Chinese, but I have never been quite sure what the term means.</div>
<div> Garo is generally regarded as not being a tone language. But Garo does have a glottal stop on some syllables, and such syllables are in clear contrast with otherwise pretty much identical syllables that lack the glottal stop. Glottal stops can occur on the first and third syllable of a word, but they lose their glottlal stops on the second syllable (and probably the 4th, but it is hard to get good and clear examples). </div>
<div> More interesting, the difference between having and not having a glottal stop is clearly cognate to a high vs. some other tone in the Boro, Tiwa, and Rabha, all of which, like Garo, belong to the Boro-Garo subgroup of TB. The glottal stop is cognate to a high tone in these lgs.</div>
<div>All this is explained in some detail in a monograph by U. V. Joseph and myself: Comparative Phonology of the Boro Garo Languages, Central Instit. of Indian Languages, 2006. Unfortunately this monograph is not easy to find. It should be available from DK agencies, the E-mail address I will forward in another message. </div>
<div> I don't know whether this has any bearing on your work.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob Burling</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Kristine Hildebrandt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu" target="_blank">khildeb@siue.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>In the process of compiling some tone and tone-related entries for a forthcoming dictionary, I was asked whether the 'checked/entering tone' which is frequently discussed with respect to Chinese dialects is a concept invoked for other languages (possibly other Sino-Tibetan, but even more, for other languages <i>outside</i> of the family altogether). My basic journal/literature/even Google searches have not been very fruitful. Can anyone help me with this?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you,<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Orche<br>('Thanks' in Manange)<div><br><i>Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i><br><i>Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature<br>
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><div><i>Box 1431<br>Edwardsville, IL 62026 U.S.A.<br><a href="tel:618-650-3380" target="_blank" value="+16186503380">618-650-3380</a> (office)</i><div><i><a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu" target="_blank">khildeb@siue.edu</a><br>
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