"This remarkable collection of linguistic studies will be a challenging introduction for the beginning student and a valued resource for the advanced scholar." --RUSSELL T. BLACKWOOD, John S. Kennedy Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, New York "The volume is a fine collection of studies in generative phonology, using the latest methods to investigate a variety of interesting phenomena in the sound patterns of Chinese." --WILLIAM S-Y. WANG, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Professor (Chair) of Language Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong "De Bao Xu is to be congratulated for recruiting leading generative researchers to offer theoretically up-to-date analyses of aspects of the tonal, prosodic, and segmental phonologies of a variety of Chinese dialects. The volume will be of interest to specialists as well as to general audiences." --Michael Kenstowicz, Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The study of theoretical phonology in general and Chinese phonology in particular will benefit substantially from this excellent book. De Bao Xu has put together a collection of new papers from a number of specialists in Chinese phonology that is impressive in terms of the quality of the research, the range of theoretical perspectives, and the diversity of dialects and phenomena examined." --Charles K. Kisseberth, Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Tel-Aviv University, Israel Duanmu and Xu primarily discuss issues in Chinese phonology, many of these topics involve instrumental phonetic evidence and are actually excellent materials for a course with equal emphasis on phonology and phonetics...Many students in my class were inspired by these readings to carry on further investigations...I think this is the strongest testimony to the success of the books. --De Bao Xu, Phonology, Vol 21, 2004.
