Yanyong Zhang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yanyong Zhang is involved.

Article

Zhang, Jingwei, Yanyong Zhang and Daming Xu 2019 A variationist approach to tone categorization in Cantonese Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1, pp. 1–16 | Article

This study examines tone mergers in Hong Kong Cantonese from the perspective of variationist sociolinguistics. It approaches the issue of whether Cantonese has six or nine tones by focusing on two ongoing tone mergers: (1) the merger of yin qu T3 and yang qu T6, and (2) the merger of lower yin ru… read more