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From Intonation to Tone: the case of utterance-final particles aa Title and wo in Cantonese; 从语调到声调——以粤语句末语气助词呀 、 喎为例 Author(s) Ding, PS Citation Modern Linguistics, 2013, v. 1 n. 2, p. 36-41; 现代语言学, 2013, v. 1 n. 2, p. 36-41 Issued Date 2013 URL /10722/187894 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Rights NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Modern Linguistics 现代语言学, 2013, 1, 36-41 /10.12677/ml.2013.12007 Published Online August 2013 (/journal/ml.html) * From Intonation to Tone —The Case of Utterance-Final Particles “aa” and “wo” in Cantonese Picus Sizhi Ding Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Email: picus@hku.hk Received: Apr. 21st st th , 2013; revised: Jun. 1 , 2013; accepted: Jun. 12 , 2013 Copyright © 2013 Picus Sizhi Ding. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract: This paper points out that some utterance-final particles in Cantonese can bear different boundary H L tones, which gives rise to a set of quasi-homophones that contrast merely in pitch, e.g. (a) “aa ”, “aa ”, R R L H “aa ” and (b) “wo ”, “wo ”, “wo ”. These two