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Cheng, Chin-Chuan – 1986
A study of the relationships between Chinese dialects based on a quantitative measure of dialect affinity is summarized. First, tone values in all the dialect localities available in the early 1970s were used to calculate the dialectal differences in terms of tone height with respect to the "yin and yang" split. In the late 1970s, calculations of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
