tone sandhi

English

Noun

Examples

(in Mandarin) 你好吗？ 我很好。
Nominal (dictionary) tones: Nǐ hǎo ma? Wǒ hěn hǎo.
Actual tones: Ní hǎo ma? Wǒ hén hǎo. (third tone in front of another tone becomes second tone)
Translation: How are you? I'm fine.

tone sandhi (uncountable)

  1. (phonology) The change of tone that occurs in some tonal languages when certain tones are pronounced successively.

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