155
SC final
KHW final Conditioning factor
Smooth Tones
Examples
Clipped Tones
-aam/p -aam/p
Unconditioned
三膾牖淡 甲搭夾納雜
-am/p
-am/p
Unconditioned
心含銜林 濕急十入合
.im/p
im/p
Unconditioned
嚴檢染馓 接劫協
-aam/t
Unconditioned
--aeng/k
閒關難晚 刀刮猿
waang/k
Unconditioned
生橫硬筆 百窄H
-an/t
-un/t
-ang/k
-ang/k
Unconditioned
Unconditioned
Unconditioned
根聞粉陣 春樽 七筆實 出律術 聲等正嫲 得黑
-ing/k
Unconditioned
經蒸蟹榮 識色食歷
-in/t
---ing/k
-on/t
-oon/t
-ung/k
Unconditioned
Unconditioned
Unconditioned
天田展面 精切否別 安寒漢汗 測渴 官門款碗
-ung/k
Unconditioned
公紅孔用 竹督再次
-pen/t
-ung/k
Unconditioned
酸選軟 缺說
-eng/k
--cng/k Unconditioned
省頸痛 只踢石菜
-eung/k
-ông k
Unconditioned
傷娘唱讓 脚樂
—ong k
-ong/k
Unconditioned
國落
5. Tones.
There are four tones, numbered 1 to 4 in this paper. Tones 3 and 4 form the higher register; tones 1 and 2, the lower. Each register has a rising tone (tones 3 and 1) and a lower tone which is level or slightly falling (tones 4 and 2). In Y. R. Chao's numerical notation (in which the numbers represent the approximate musical contour of a tone on a relative scale from 1 low to 5 high, the first and last digits standing for the starting and ending points of a tone), their contours, observed on isolated syllables, are: