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Abstract

and have long been a set of confusing concepts in Chinese linguistic studies. In literature scholars usually agree on the use of to refer to the neutral tone in Mandarin. However, some scholars believe that is the same as and use them interchangeably. Furthermore, the term is used to prove that Mandarin has word stress, since word stress, or in Chinese is the counterpart of . Therefore, it is important to clarify the relationship between the two concepts, namely and to determine the linguistic and typological nature of Mandarin. This study tried to differentiate these two concepts both phonetically and phonologically and proved that is a result of a set of tonal processes, such as tone sandhi, tone neutralization, tone spreading, while is a result of a series of metrical process, such as clash and lapse. It also compared and on their functions, classifications, origins, and did a quantitative study on the distribution of the words in Mandarin to further prove that and are two completely different concepts, and hence proved that it is invalid to claim Mandarin has word stress because of the existence of .

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