In this paper, I discuss tonal reduplication in Kunming, which has received little attention in the formal linguistics literature. Based on first hand data, I show that tonal reduplication in Kunming is interesting in two respects. First, a Base tone is not always transferred to the RED (reduplicant); while a Hr (high register) Base tone (i.e., yinping 44, shangsheng 53) is transferred to the RED, the RED corresponding to a Lr (low register) Base tone (i.e., yangping 31, qusheng 11) surfaces with a non-correspondent high tone. I propose that the non-corresponding high tone comes from a floating tone that accompanies reduplication and is only realized on the RED corresponding to Lr Base tones, but not to Hr Base tones, because Hr Base tones are prominent and more easily preserved on the RED. Second, as far as yinping tone sandhi is concerned, though it applies normally on the Base and outside the BR complex, on the RED it unexpectedly underapplies when the RED carries a yinping tone copied from the Base. I propose that tone sandhi underapplies only on a copied yinping tone, and not elsewhere, because only underapplication of yinping tone sandhi in this case can help improve BR Identity.

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昆明重复中的音调（非）转移

在本文中，我讨论了昆明的色调重复，在正式的语言学文献中很少受到关注。基于第一手数据，我表明昆明的色调重复在两个方面都很有趣。首先，基本音调并不总是传送到RED（重复）。而HR（高寄存器）基本音（即，阴平44，上声53）被转移到RED中，RED对应于LR（低寄存器）基本音（即，阳平31，去声11）具有不对应的高色调的表面。我建议不对应的高音来自伴随重复的浮动音，并且仅在对应于Lr基本音的RED上实现，而不适用于Hr基本音，因为Hr基本音是突出的并且更容易保存在RED上。其次，就阴音基调而言，尽管它通常适用于基准站和BR复合系统之外，但在RED上，当RED承载从基准基点复制的阴音基调时，它出人意料地不足。我建议变调underapplies仅在复印阴平调，而不是其他地方，因为只有underapplication阴平在这种情况下变调可以帮助提高BR身份。