query: checked/entering tone

[Dan Xu]

Dear colleagues,

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 *Qièyùn*
切韵(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).

Best regards,

Xu Dan



2012/9/21 Robbins Burling <rburling at umich.edu>

> Kristine Hildebrandt:    Since Seino v.b. mentioned my work with Garo, let
> me weigh in.
>       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.
>       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).
>      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.
> 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.
>       I don't know whether this has any bearing on your work.
>
> Rob Burling
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Kristine Hildebrandt <khildeb at siue.edu>wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> 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 *outside* of the family altogether). My basic
>> journal/literature/even Google searches have not been very fruitful. Can
>> anyone help me with this?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> --
>> Orche
>> ('Thanks' in Manange)
>>
>> *Kristine A. Hildebrandt*
>> *Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature
>> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville*
>> *Box 1431
>> Edwardsville, IL 62026 U.S.A.
>> 618-650-3380 (office)*
>> *khildeb at siue.edu
>> http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb*
>>
>>
>


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Xu Dan 徐丹
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