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A Re-cognition to the Tone Pitch of Level Tone in the South Xinjiang Variant of Zhongyuan Mandarin Dialect of Xinjiang Han Dialect Area

MA Ke-zhang

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The paper brings forward the doubt firstly about the conclusion made with a statistic method ten years ago by the author himself that the tone pitch of level tone in the south Xinjiang variant of Xinjiang Han dialect was [213],then analyzes from the latest achievements constituted in the last decade on dialect within and outside of Xinjiang,and finally concludes that the former conclusion of [213] for the tone pitch of level tone is incorrect,and that the tone pitch [24]of level tone prevailing in Yili district of Xinjiang represents the truth.

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The paper brings forward the doubt firstly about the conclusion made with a statistic method ten years ago by the author himself that the tone pitch of level tone in the south Xinjiang variant of Xinjiang Han dialect was [213],then analyzes from the latest achievements constituted in the last decade on dialect within and outside of Xinjiang,and finally concludes that the former conclusion of [213] for the tone pitch of level tone is incorrect,and that the tone pitch [24]of level tone prevailing in Yili district of Xinjiang represents the truth.

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The paper brings forward the doubt firstly about the conclusion made with a statistic method ten years ago by the author himself that the tone pitch of level tone in the south Xinjiang variant of Xinjiang Han dialect was [213],then analyzes from the latest achievements constituted in the last decade on dialect within and outside of Xinjiang,and finally concludes that the former conclusion of [213] for the tone pitch of level tone is incorrect,and that the tone pitch [24]of level tone prevailing in Yili district of Xinjiang represents the truth.

Key concepts: Tone (literature), Mandarin Chinese, Statistic, History, Linguistics, Geography, Mathematics, Statistics

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