Mong Leng, Hmong Njua, Green Hmong

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Representation of Tones:

7 underlying tones: /55/, /52/, /35/, /33/, /21h/, /22/, /21q/
7 surface tones: [55], [52], [35], [33], [21h], [22], [21q]
Tone bearing unit: syllable

Tonal Rules and Alternations:

Other Rules:

Within a prosodic word, there is a set of sandhi alternations conditioned by a preceding /55/ or /52/ tone. In this environent, /35/ -> [33], /33/ -> [22], /52/ -> [21h], /21q/ -> [21h].

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In one reduplication contruction applying only to monosyllabic expressives, the reduplicant always bears the /55/ tone.

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Tonal Domains:

Tonal Assignments in Compounds:

In compounds, tone sandhi occurs according to the same set of rules as in other prosodic words.

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Lexical Domains:

Tone sandhi occurs only within prosodic words, although these words may have internal syntactic structure. Thus, tone sandhi occurs not only in environments derived by compounding and affixation, but also in numeral-classifier constructions.

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Postlexical Domains:

Tone sandhi occurs postlexically (since it is triggered by both morphologically and syntactically derived environments) but always takes the prosodic word as its domain.

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Tone Interactions:

Consonant Interactions:

The tone 21h does not occur in syllables with aspirated onsets.

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Other Notes:

Bibliography:

Cite this page as:
XTone Database Article on Mong Leng, Hmong Njua, Green Hmong. Accessed November 24, 2009 http://xtone.linguistics.berkeley.edu/display/index.php?languageid=9

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