Abstract
This paper re-examines the correlation between tone and prominence in Chinese. Though not characteristic of stress as in English, Chinese employs pitch range and duration as two tonal parameters to present the strong-weak relation between syllables. Through a wide array of tonal phenomena in various Chinese dialects, this paper comes to the conclusion that a metrically prominent syllable prefers high-registered, long, or marked tones, and a less prominent syllable exhibits the opposite picture.