Este trabalho trata da descrição e da análise do fraseamento entoacional do contorno de sentenças declarativas neutras do português falado na Guiné-Bissau (PGB), no que se refere, especificamente, à investigação da relação entre atribuição de eventos tonais ao contorno entoacional e formação de domínios prosódicos. Além disso, faz-se a comparação dos resultados obtidos para o fraseamento entoacional dos dados do PGB com os resultados obtidos para o fraseamento entoacional já descritos em trabalhos anteriores para o português brasileiro (PB) e para o português europeu (PE). Os corpora utilizados para o desenvolvimento deste estudo derivam de dois tipos de discurso (sentenças de leitura e de fala espontânea). A descrição e a análise do fraseamento entoacional das sentenças declarativas neutras contidas nesses corpora é desenvolvido à luz da abordagem Autossegmental e Métrica da fonologia entoacional (PIERREHUMBERT, 1980; BECKMAN; PIERREHUMBERT, 1986; LADD, 1996, 2008; entre outros) e da Fonologia Prosódica (SELKIRK, 1984, 1986, 2000; NESPOR; VOGEL, 1986, 2007; entre outros) e com base em estudos prévios desenvolvidos nesses mesmos quadros teóricos e aplicados ao PB (CUNHA 2000; FROTA; VIGÁRIO 2000; TENANI 2002; FERNANDES, 2007a, 2007b; SERRA 2009; entre outros) e ao PE (GRØNNUM; VIANA, 1999; FROTA, 2000, 2002a, 2002b, 2003; VIGÁRIO, 2003; VIGÁRIO; FROTA, 2003; CRUZ, 2013; entre outros). Os resultados alcançados nesta dissertação revelam características entoacionais do PGB que são similares às encontradas nas demais variedades de português: (i) a frequente atribuição de acentos tonais a palavras fonológicas do contorno entoacional (característica também encontrada no contorno entoacional do PB); (ii) a associação obrigatória de um acento tonal à palavra fonológica cabeça do último sintagma fonológico do sintagma entoacional, seguido por um tom de fronteira associado à fronteira direita desse sintagma (assim como no PB e no PE); (iii) a correspondência do padrão do contorno nuclear do sintagma entoacional das declarativas neutras do PGB com os padrões do contorno nuclear desse mesmo sintagma das sentenças declarativas neutras do PB e das variedades do PE; (iv) a possibilidade de associação de acentos frasais a fronteiras de sintagmas fonológicos (evento tonal que é encontrado associado a sintagmas fonológicos desse mesmo tipo de sentenças em uma das variedades centro-meridionais do PE); e (v) a ocorrência de eventos tonais adicionais H associados a sílabas pretônicas de palavras fonológicas longas do contorno entoacional (semelhante aos tons adicionais encontrados associados a palavras fonológicas também longas no PB). / In this study, we investigate the intonation of neutral declarative sentences of Portuguese of Guinea-Bissau (GBP), with regarding to the investigation of the relation between tonal events assignment and prosodic domains formation. In addition, we compare the results obtained for the analysis of GBP data with the intonational patterns of neutral sentences described on previous works for Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP). For this research, a corpus of two different speech styles (read sentences and spontaneous speech sentences) was used. For the description and analysis of intonational of neutral declarative sentences in this corpus we followed the Autosegmental Metrical aproach within the intonational phonology framework (PIERREHUMBERT, 1980; BECKMAN; PIERREHUMBERT, 1986; LADD, 1996, 2008; among others), the Prosodic Phonology framework (SELKIRK, 1984, 1986, 2000; NESPOR; VOGEL 1986, 2007; among others) and previous studies conducted on those theoretical frameworks and applied to BP (CUNHA; 2000; FROTA; VIGÁRIO, 2000; TENANI 2002; FERNANDES, 2007a, 2007b; SERRA 2009; among others) and EP (GRØNNUM; VIANA, 1999; FROTA, 2000, 2002a, 2002b, 2003; VIGÁRIO, 2003; FROTA; VIGÁRIO, 2003; CRUZ, 2013; among others). The results achieved in this work show that the intonation properties of GBP are similar to those found in the other varieties of Portuguese already studied. These properties are as follow: (i) frequent association of pitch accents with Phonological Words of intonation contour (tonal characteristic also found in BP); (ii) a pitch accent is obligatorily associated with the Phonological Word head of the last Phonological Phrase of a Intonation Phrase, followed by a boundary tone associated with the right edge of that Intonation Phrase (as in BP and EP); (iii) there is a matching in the nuclear contour of GPB neutral declarative sentences with the nuclear contour of BP and varieties of EP neutral declarative sentences; (iv) the possibility of phrasal accents to be associated with phonological phrases boundaries (the same possibility is found for one of the center-southern varieties of EP); and (v) the possibility of H tones to be associated with pretonic syllables of long Prosodic Words (as in BP).

Este trabalho trata da descrição e da análise do contorno entoacional total de sentenças interrogativas globais e parciais, neutras e não-neutras, da variedade paulista do português brasileiro (PB). Investigamos a relação entre a associação de eventos tonais ao contorno entoacional dessas sentenças e a formação de domínios prosódicos. Nosso objetivo é identificar padrões entoacionais que codifiquem prosodicamente o significado pragmático dos diferentes tipos de sentenças interrogativas do PB. Partimos da hipótese de que o contorno entoacional total tem papel fundamental na codificação de significados pragmáticos, além do contorno nuclear. Em nosso trabalho, utilizamo-nos de corpora de fala controlada obtida em tarefa de leitura de sentenças interrogativas antecedidas por contextos propícios à produção de diferentes tipos frásicos interrogativos e de fala semicontrolada obtida em tarefa de leitura de mapa em dupla. A descrição e a análise prosódica das sentenças interrogativas de nossos corpora foram feitas à luz da visão integrada entre a abordagem Autossegmental e Métrica da Fonologia Entoacional (Pierrehumbert 1980; Pierrehumbert & Beckman 1988; Ladd 1996, 2008; Jun 2005/2014; entre outros) e a Fonologia Prosódica (Selkirk 1984, 1986, 2000; Nespor & Vogel 1986, 2007). Levamos em conta, para o desenvolvimento das análises desta investigação, os trabalhos desenvolvidos nesse mesmo quadro teórico e aplicados ao português (Frota & Vigário 2000; Tenani 2002; Fernandes 2007a, 2007b, Serra 2009, Toneli 2014; e, mais especificamente para sentenças interrogativas, Moraes 2008, Truckenbrodt, Sandalo & Abaurre 2009, Castelo 2011, 2016 e Frota et. al. 2015a). Os resultados obtidos a partir de nossa investigação revelam que (i) de maneira geral, o contorno nuclear das sentenças interrogativas da variedade paulista do PB tem um padrão ascendente-descendente; (ii) o contorno entoacional total tem papel importante na codificação do significado pragmático da interrogação; (iii) há características prosódicas especiais associadas ao contorno entoacional total que correspondem a significados pragmáticos específicos, como, por exemplo: (a) a marcação prosódica de foco e ênfase que varia a depender do significado pragmático associado à marcação de foco e ênfase nos diferentes tipos frásicos; (b) a associação de downstep ao contorno nuclear de sentenças interrogativas neutras; (c) a associação de upstep marcando o elemento enfático em sentenças interrogativas antiexpectativa; (d) o rebaixamento da gama de variação tonal no trecho do contorno entoacional correspondente à primeira palavra prosódica e o contorno nuclear em sentenças interrogativas retóricas; (e) as diferenças quanto à densidade tonal em sentenças interrogativas neutras e não-neutras; entre outras características prosódicas especiais associadas a significados pragmáticos específicos. Tais resultados revelam o cumprimento dos objetivos da pesquisa e confirmam nossa hipótese inicial de trabalho. / This study aims to describe the intonational contour of global and partial, neutral and non-neutral interrogative sentences of the Paulista variety of Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We investigate the relation between tonal events assignment and the formation of prosodic domains. Our goal is to find intonational patterns that codigy pragmatic meaning of different clause types of BP interrogative sentences. Our hypothesis is that the total contour has a fundamental role in codifying pragmatic meaning, besides the nuclear contour. In our work, the corpora analyzed includes controlled speech data obtained in a reading task that exposed interrogative sentences along with context to elicit the production of interrogatives with different pragmatic meanings and semicontrolled speech data recorded in a map task. The description and the prosodic analysis of the intonational phrasing of the interrogative sentences of our corpora were developed according to an integrated view of the Autossegmental Metrical approach within the framework of Intonational Phonology (Pierrehumbert 1980; Pierrehumbert & Beckman 1988; Ladd 1996, 2008; Jun 2005/2014; entre outros) and the Prosodic Phonology framework (Selkirk 1984, 1986, 2000; Nespor & Vogel 1986, 2007). Our analysis take into account previous works developed in this same framework and applied to Portuguese (Frota & Vigário 2000; Tenani 2002; Fernandes 2007a, 2007b, Serra 2009, Toneli 2014; and, more specifically regarding interrogative sentences, Moraes 2008, Truckenbrodt, Sandalo & Abaurre 2009, Castelo 2011, 2016 e Frota et. al. 2015a). The results achieved through this investigation reveal that (i) in general, the nuclear contour of interrogative sentences of the Paulista variety of BP show a rising-falling pattern; (ii) the total contour plays an important role in conveying pragmatic meaning of questions; (iii) there are special prosodic characteristics assigned to the total contour that correspond to specific pragmatic meaning, such as: (a) focus and emphasis marking that varies depending on the pragmatic meaning associated with different phrase types; (b) downstep association to the nuclear contour in neutral interrogative sentences; (c) upstep association to the emphatic element in counter expectation sentences; (d) lower tessiture of the range of variation in the portion of the intonational contour corresponding to the first prosodic word and the nuclear contour in rhetoric questions; (e) differences in tonal density between neutral and non-neutral sentences; among other prosodic characteristics associated with specific pragmatic meaning. These results confirm lead us to achieve our objectives and confirm our main hypothesis.

Orientadores: Marcos Aurelio Pereira, Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T05:38:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jesus_CarlosRenatoR.de_D.pdf: 2671899 bytes, checksum: 14ae0d99724e6cba11c1e9aadc8fe130 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Nossa pesquisa consiste em discutir determinados elementos presentes no Orator ¿ obra de Marco Túlio Cícero, orador romano do séc. I a.C. ¿ que tratam da questão do ritmo como fator integrante do discurso oratório. Escrito no ano 46 a.C. e constituindo o seu último grande tratado de Retórica, o livro trata dos requisitos do orador ideal, entre os quais prevalece o domínio dos elementos rítmicos da prosa. Concentrar-nos-emos mais detidamente na composição rítmica do período oratório, desde sua formulação grega, passando pela sua construção no mundo romano até sua constituição em Cícero. Discutiremos as questões mais relevantes acerca dos principais recursos estéticos que concorrem para sua composição, como, por exemplo, as cláusulas métricas e os demais elementos prosódicos, como o acento, que viabilizam sua elaboração. Tencionamos, com isso, descobrir até que ponto as inferências do orador romano sobre o período oratório podem ser analisadas sob a ótica de um paradigma linguístico moderno, especificamente, a fonologia métrica e a fonologia prosódica, e de que modo suas reflexões podem contribuir para a compreensão da língua latina no que tange ao seu aspecto prosódico / Abstract: Our research consists in a discussion about some elements found in the Orator ¿ one of the books of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman rhetorician and orator of the 1st century BCE ¿, which deals with the issue of rhythm as part of the oratory speech. Written in the year of 46 BCE, the book is his last great treatise on rhetoric and deals with the requirements of the ideal orator, among which prevails mastering of the elements of prose-rhythm. We will focus on the rhythmic composition of the oratory period, its Greek formulation, its construction in the Roman world and its incorporation by Cicero. We will also discuss the most relevant issues on the main aesthetic features that contribute to its composition, as for example, the metric clausulae and other prosodic elements such as accent, that enable their development. We intend, therefore, to check out whether Cicero¿s formulations of oratory periods can be analyzed from a modern linguistic perspective, specifically metric and prosodic phonology, and how his theory contributes to understanding the Latin language / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutora em Linguística

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Notre thèse porte sur l’étude linguistique contrastive de la référence aux couleurs dans les proverbes à partir d'un corpus de 208 proverbes recueillis en France et en Irak. Nous étudierons la manière dont les couleurs sont exprimées dans les deux langues (catégories grammaticales, structure grammaticale et prosodique des énoncés, outils rhétoriques appliqués aux couleurs pour renforcer leur valeur expressive), ainsi que le rapport des locuteurs à l'usage des couleurs dans les proverbes qu'ils utilisent. Nous essayerons également d'explorer dans les deux langues les différences liées à l'époque où le proverbe a été le plus utilisé, ainsi que le degré de connaissance des proverbes selon l'âge, le sexe, la profession et la région du locuteur. La langue française, ainsi que le dialecte irakien contiennent une grande proportion de mots indiquant la couleur dans les proverbes. Et c’est la connotation de ces mots qui est à l’origine de la difficulté de compréhension. De plus, selon les pays, les cultures et les époques, les couleurs revêtent des significations différentes, parfois aux antipodes de celles des cultures voisines, comme le blanc, associé en occident et dans les pays arabes (comme en Irak) à la pureté, alors qu’il est lié au deuil dans la plupart des pays asiatiques. Grâce à la langue, comme nous le savons, l’homme peut communiquer, échanger les informations, les idées et les sentiments. En d’autres termes, les parleurs peuvent exprimer ce qu’ils veulent exprimer, ce qu’ils veulent dire et les auditeurs peuvent recevoir les informations. Cependant, dans la communication, il n’est pas toujours facile de comprendre complètement et exactement ce qui est dit et écrit, parce que le sens du mot est compliqué et sophistiqué. Le même mot, utilisé dans ces différentes situations, aura différentes significations. Les mots indiquant la couleur se heurtent aux mêmes problèmes. Fonctionnant comme une unité isolée, le proverbe est une combinaison de mots tirés du vocabulaire général de chaque langue. Nous considérons les mots indiquant la couleur dans les proverbes et les locutions proverbiales comme l’objet de notre étude parce que la couleur est partout dans notre vie : la couleur des plantes et des animaux, la couleur du ciel et de la terre, la couleur des aliments, mais aussi parce que les proverbes constituent une source de vocabulaire riche pour ceux qui apprennent la langue. Les proverbes portent divers champs sémantiques et ils reflètent bien les difficultés culturelles liées à l’apprentissage du français en Irak. En outre, nous essayerons de prouver, à travers des transformations et des manipulations, que ces proverbes peuvent être figés. Une étude approfondie de ces traits sémantiques et syntaxiques nous a paru de première nécessité pour rendre compte de l'existence du figement dans les proverbes, phénomène linguistique à la fois très important et très complexe. Par ailleurs, la comparaison critique entre ces deux langues, le français et l’arabe en l’occurrence, affirme que ce phénomène du figement n’est qu’un fait linguistique universel, et révèle que chaque langue a ses propres mécanismes de figement. Nous pouvons noter que du point de vue sémantique, le sens des proverbes n’est pas calculé selon les règles de la compositionalité ; autrement dit, le sens global des proverbes n’est pas l’addition du sens des éléments qui les composent. / Our thesis concerns the contrastive linguistic study of The reference to colors in the proverbs from a corpus of 208 proverbs collected in France and in Iraq. We shall study how the colors are expressed in both languages (word classes, grammatical and prosodic structure of the statements, the rhetoric tools applied to colors to strengthen their meaning value) as well as the link of the speakers for colors in the proverbs they use. We shall also try to explore in both languages the differences related to the period when the proverb was the most used as well as in the degree of knowledge of the proverbs according to age, sex, profession and the region of the speaker. The French language as well as the Iraqi dialect contain a big proportion of words indicating the color in the proverbs. And it is the connotation of these words that is the origin of the difficulty of understanding. Furthermore, according to countries, cultures and times, the colors take on different meanings sometimes to the antipodes of those of the nearby cultures like the colour white, associated in the West and in Arab countries to purity, while it is refers to mourning in most of the Asian countries. Thanks to the language, as we know it, the man can communicate, exchange information, ideas and eelings. In other words, the speakers can express what they want to express, what they want to sayand the listenerscan receive the information. However, in communication, it is not always easy to understand completely and exactly what is said and written, because the meaning of the word is complicated and sophisticated. The same word, used in these various situations, will have various meanings. The words indicating the color come up against with the same problems. Working as an isolated unity, the proverb is a combinatio of words taken from the general vocabulary of every language. We consider the words indicating the color in the proverbs and the proverbial expressions as the object of our study because the color is everywhere in our life : the color of the plants and animals, the color of the sky and the earth, the color of food, but also because the proverbs constitute a source of rich vocabulary for those who learn the language. The proverbs refers to diverse semantic fields and they reflect nicely the cultural difficulties related to learning of the French language in Iraq. Besides this, we would try to prove through transformations and manipulations that these proverbs can be frozen. An elaborate study of these semantic and syntactical features seemed to us absolutely essential to report the existence of the congealing in the proverbs, a very important and very complex linguistic phenomenon at the same time. Besides that, the critical comparison between these two languages : French and Arabic in this particular case, asserts that the phenomenon of the congealing is just a universal linguistic fact, and reveals that each language has its own mechanisms of congealing. We can note that, from the semantic point of view, the meaning of the proverbs is not calculated according to the rules of the compositionality ; in other words, the global meaning of the proverbs is not the addition of the meaning of the elements which compose them.

Orientador: Lourenço Chacon / Resumo: Propusemos investigar, na fala infantil, relações entre hesitações e as configurações de cinco dos constituintes prosódicos (Nespor; Vogel, 1986): enunciado fonológico, frase entonacional, frase fonológica, grupo clítico e palavra fonológica. A busca dessas relações foi orientada pelos objetivos: (i) verificar, nas ocorrências de hesitação, seu vínculo com constituintes prosódicos nos quais a informação fonológica se mostra relacionada a aspectos sintático-semânticos e a aspectos morfológicos e lexicais do enunciado; e (ii) observar, nos diferentes constituintes prosódicos, se as hesitações ocorrem, preferencialmente, nas posições fracas ou fortes que os compõem. Os dados foram extraídos de um banco composto por 147 situações de entrevistas (gravadas e transcritas) realizadas com crianças entre 5-6 anos de idade. Primeiramente, consideramos as ocorrências de hesitações que incidiram em dois grupos de constituintes prosódicos, de acordo com suas características estruturais: os mais altos (enunciado fonológico, frase entonacional, frase fonológica) – por apresentar interação com componentes sintático-semânticos; e os mais baixos (grupo clítico e palavra fonológica) – por apresentarem interação com componentes morfológicos e lexicais. Em seguida, consideramos as ocorrências de hesitações julgadas em posições fortes ou fracas dos cinco constituintes prosódicos selecionados. Foram detectadas, pelos juízes, 2.399 ocorrências hesitativas. Dessas ocorrências, verificamos que as hesit... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: We proposed to investigate, in children's speech, relationships between hesitations and the configurations of five of the prosodic constituents (Nespor; Vogel, 1986): phonological utterance, intonational phrase, phonological phrase, clitic group and phonological word. The search for these relationships was guided by the objectives: (i) to verify, in the occurrences of hesitation, its link with prosodic constituents in which the phonological information is related to syntactic-semantic aspects and to the morphological and lexical aspects of the utterance; and (ii) observe, in the different prosodic constituents, if hesitations occur, preferably, in the weak or strong positions that compose them. The data were extracted from a database composed of 147 interview situations (recorded and transcribed) conducted with children between 5-6 years of age. Firstly, we consider the occurrences of hesitations that showed two groups of prosodic constituents, according to their structural characteristics: the highest (phonological utterance, intonational phrase, phonological phrase) - for presenting interaction with syntactic-semantic components; and the lowest (clitic group and phonological word) - for presenting interaction with morphological and lexical components. Then, we consider the occurrences of hesitations judged on strong or weak positions of the five selected prosodic constituents. 2.399 hesitant occurrences were detected by the judges. From these occurrences, we can see that th... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Contrastive stress is an aspect of communication that can be used to highlight information, de-accent redundant information, and create distinctions between new and previously-provided information. Previous research has documented that adult speakers use relative changes in their vocal intensity, fundamental frequency (F0), and duration to mark contrastive stress in a sentence. However, less is understood about how and when children mark contrastive stress in their communication, thus the current study aims to examine a number of acoustic elements of contrastive stress in 8 to 10-year-old children. Speech samples were elicited from 20 children and analyzed to determine if the acoustic parameters of F0, intensity, and duration varied as a function of the speaking condition, speaker gender, or grammatical unit. Results of the experiment suggest that when comparing the baseline speaking condition to the speaking condition eliciting contrastive stress, significant differences were only found for the acoustic measure of mean intensity. Additionally, gender-related differences in contrastive stress were found only for the dependent measure of F0 slope, with a greater F0 slope exhibited by female speakers. All grammatical units were significantly different from one another across a number of variables, with significant interactions between baseline and target conditions and grammatical unit being analyzed. As indicated in previous research, the findings of the present study may indicate that children under 10 years of age may not have developed contrastive stress in an adult-like manner. Results may also be due to individual speaker differences, the complex nature of prosody, or measurement methodology.

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Words in utterance-final positions are often pronounced more slowly than utterance-medial words, as previous studies on individual languages have shown. This paper provides a systematic cross-linguistic comparison of relative durations of final and penultimate words in utterances in terms of the degree to which such words are lengthened. The study uses time-aligned corpora from 10 genealogically, areally, and culturally diverse languages, including eight small, under-resourced, and mostly endangered languages, as well as English and Dutch. Clear effects of lengthening words at the end of utterances are found in all 10 languages, but the degrees of lengthening vary. Languages also differ in the relative durations of words that precede utterance-final words. In languages with on average short words in terms of number of segments, these penultimate words are also lengthened. This suggests that lengthening extends backwards beyond the final word in these languages, but not in languages with on average longer words. Such typological patterns highlight the importance of examining prosodic phenomena in diverse language samples beyond the small set of majority languages most commonly investigated so far.

本論文旨在探討閩南語的三種變調: (1)形容詞重疊變調 , (2) -a後綴變調,和 (3) 輕聲變調. 形容詞重疊變調是在 McCarthy & Prince (1986, 1990) 等人所發展出來的韻律構詞學( Prosodic Morphology) 理論框架下重新分析. 作者認為形容詞三疊是由抑揚格音步前綴而來, 而不是江文瑜教授(1992)所說的音節後綴; 此外,聲調扮演了構詞功能的角色. -a 後綴變調則是運用字構音韻學( Lexical Phonology)理論來分析的. 根據黃宣範教授(1988) 和連金發先生(1995)對-a後綴構詞特性的分類, 作者將-a後綴重新分為六類. 再觀察它們與音韻規則的互動關係, 主張-a後綴構應分屬於三個字構層次中, 此理論的層級排列( Level Ordering) 和嚴格循環論( Strict Cyclicity)也在本章獲得證實. 輕聲變調是採用韻律音韻學(Prosodic Phonology) 來分析的. 作者認為輕聲有兩個規律: 浮游低調展延和原調展延, 且運作於一個(強起)( left-leaded)的音韻片語中, 如此一來,簡化了煩雜的青聲句法結構. 兩個輕聲規律的不同展現於展延節點,方向,屬性,音節數目等方面. 本章的分析技巧也支持了韻律體係在語言系統中的必要性 / This thesis explores three kinds of special tone sandhi in Southern Min: (i) reduplicated adjective tone sandhi, (ii) -a suffix tone sandhi, and (iii)neutral tone sandhi. Reduplicated adjective tone sandhi is analyzed within the framework of prosodic morphology (McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1990). Unlike Chiang's (1992)suffix syllable template, the author argues that AAA is reduplicated by theprefixation of an iambic template.Following Yip (1980), tone may play a morphological role. -a suffix is discussed from the perspective of lehor argues that AAxical phonology. According to the morphological functions figured from Lien (1995) and Huang (1988), six categories of the suffix -a are distinguished. Through the interactions of morphological and phonological rules, the concepts of levelordering and strict cyclicity in lexical phonology are proved necessary in this language. Neutral tone sandhi is investigated in terms of prosodic phonology. Theauthor argues that the domain of neutral tone sandhi is a left-headed phonological phrase, which is more economical than previous syntactic approaches (Cheng 1968; Hong 1995). There are two neutral tone rules: thefloting low tone spreading and the base tone spreading. They are differentin spreading node, direction, order and so on. The analysis supports Yip'stwo-tiered tonal geometry andcallsfor the need of prosodic Hierachy in thelinguistic system.