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Chinese Tone System
Four phonological tones:
1: H_H tone 2: L-H Tone 3: L-L tone 4: H-L
Neutral tone is decided by the preceding tone: H or L. Some words with neutral tone syllable has different meaning from the normal stress words. Such as: (duck head) and ( little girl), the second syllable is neutral tone
Tone sandhi rule for Standard Chinese
tone 3 + tone3 -> tone 2+tone 3