I spent 10/10/10 somehow in Shanghai again, wandering around the A zone of World Expo with TTL. Amongst others, we saw TTL's Anhui province, the slang and funny dialect of which I have been trying to learn, and Fujian province, the probable land of my extreme ancestors.
Today was Taiwan's national day, uncelebrated here of course.
Taiwanese has extremely extensive tone sandhi (tone-changing) rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules. The following rules, listed in the traditional pedagogical mnemonic order, govern the pronunciation of tone on each of the syllables affected (that is, all but the last in an utterance):
If the original tone number is 5, pronounce it as tone number 3 (Quanzhou/Taipei speech) or 7 (Zhangzhou/Tainan speech).
If the original tone number is 7, pronounce it as tone number 3.
If the original tone number is 3, pronounce it as tone number 2.
If the original tone number is 2, pronounce it as tone number 1.
If the original tone number is 1, pronounce it as tone number 7.
If the original tone number is 8 and the final consonant is not h (that is, it is p, t, or k), pronounce it as tone number 4.
If the original tone number is 4 and the final consonant is not h (that is, it is p, t, or k), pronounce it as tone number 8.
If the original tone number is 8 and the final consonant is h, pronounce it as tone number 3.
If the original tone number is 4 and the final consonant is h, pronounce it as tone number 2.
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