Yangping and Shang tone's tone sandhi can be considered the same.

A central proposal is that the domain of third tone sandhi is a new prosodic category called the Minimal Rhythmic Unit (MRU).

There are three tones of separate word in Yinchuan dialect: Yinping, Yangpingshang and Qusheng.

What's more, the first, second and third tones are easily confused among Pakistani students, which is the key problem for them while acquiring Chinese bisyllabic-tone.

Phonetic experiment and OT analysis are both used in this thesis to have a comprehensive study on third tone sandhi in Beijing Chinese.