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Cantonese changed tones (also called pinjam1) occur when a word's tone becomes a different tone due to a particular context or meaning. The changed tone is the tone of the word when read in a particular context, while the base (or underlying) tone is usually the tone of the word when read in citation.2

Notes

  1. ^ (Yu 2007)
  2. ^ (Yip and Matthews 2000)

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