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English
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Mandarin: 你好吗？我很好。
Nominal (dictionary) tones: Nǐ hǎo ma? Wǒ hěn hǎo.
Actual tones: Ní hǎo ma? Wǒ hén hǎo.
The third tone (ǎ) becomes the second tone (á) when another third-tone syllable follows.
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Etymology
From tone + sandhi.
Noun
tone sandhi (uncountable)
- (phonology) The change of tone that occurs in some tonal languages when certain tones are pronounced successively.
- The most frequent occurrence of tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese occurs in the third tone.
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