Checked tone
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Checked tone
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A checked tone, commonly known by the Chinese calque entering tone, is one of the four syllable types in the phonology of Middle Chinese. Although usually translated as "tone", a checked tone is not a tone in the phonetic sense but rather a type of syllable that ends in a stop consonant or a glottal stop. Separating the checked tone allows -p, -t, and -k to be treated as allophones of -m, -n, and -ng, respectively, since they are in complementary distribution. Stops appear only in the checked to
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Syllable type in the phonology in Middle Chinese
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checked_tone
date created:
2005-12-27T07:41:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T21:03:00Z
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