A deeply rooted tradition in China’s southern Guangdong province, as well as neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, almost every village invites an opera troupe to ring in the New Year. Sometimes, villages ...

the Cantonese phonetic system is far more complicated than that of Putonghua: “There are nine tones in Cantonese but only four tones in Putonghua” says Poon, “some of the Cantonese tones are ...

Lexical tone is a crucial aspect of tonal languages like Mandarin and Cantonese, where the pitch or intonation used when pronouncing a word can change its meaning entirely. Recent research has ...