Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect: Arranged According to Syllables and Tones
Separate words, and all words separately pronounced, retain their primary tone but the less emphatic words in groups of two or more sometimes change their tones.
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