This paper discusses the disyllabic tone sandhi of two Raoping Hakka dialects, respectively spoken in Guangdong, China and Qionglin, Taiwan. These two dialects have very similar tone systems, but left syllables in each dialect exhibit different tone sandhi patterns. Descriptively, this paper observes two patterns. First, the smooth tones in both dialects surface as low-registered, while the checked tones also emerge with a different register. Second, most of the smooth tones in Guangdong Raoping, and the checked tones in Qionglin Raoping, are affected by the tone pitch or tone melody of the right syllable. Theoretically, this paper argues for two points. First, tonal changes occur at four levels: tone root, tone register, tone pitch, and tone melody. Second, the grammar of tone sandhi consists of a set of universal constraints, partial ordering of which results in dialectal variation.
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