好 pronounced as hāo Entry posted by jbradfor April 4, 2011 at 02:00 PM 1244 views Share More sharing options... Followers 0 好好兒 is pronounced as hǎohāor. Weird. Are there any other cases in which 好 has this pronunciation? Report Entry
David Wong 37 Posted April 4, 2011 at 07:15 PM Report Share 好好地. And not just 好. I've heard "tone morphing" with 宝宝, 姥姥, 奶奶, 爸爸, 妈妈。But the weird thing is that in each of those cases the tones all morph to third followed by first, irrespective of what the standard tone of each word is. Granted some of those are probably non-standard but I have heard them uttered by southerners and northerners alike. E.g. 爸爸 would be ba3ba1. Link to comment
jbradfor 681 Posted April 5, 2011 at 08:38 PM Report Share Humm, good point, I think I've heard that too. It's a bit like rather than the reduplicated character becoming qingsheng, it becomes first tone. Link to comment
Michaelyus 286 Posted April 20, 2011 at 01:58 PM Report Share Cantonese does this kind of "tone change" (not sandhi), though it merges it into 陰上 (high rising tone in Cantonese). Matthews & Yip (1994) In Cantonese, tone change...occurs due to a number of morphological and semantic factors... The main tonal change occurs in compounds and reduplicated expressions, in which a mid/high rising tone results. It occurs primarily where the second syllable of a compounds or a reduplicated word has a low-register tone. Several examples follow, many along the same lines as the Mandarin ones above, as well as several other types: 試試 from 試一試, 啊- or 老- as prefixes for names, loanwords, and other curiosities. Link to comment
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