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A total of 96 MTL words that are homonyms were found in the [[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]]. This happens because of loss of tone information when syllables are put together to form a word ([[tone sandhi]]). In general, these words are two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up). Therefore two distinct words in [[POJ]] can map to the same word in MTL.
There is a relatively small number of MTL words that can be converted to more than one valid [[POJ]] word. This happens because of loss of tone information when syllables are put together to form a word ([[tone sandhi]]).  


Combined with data from [[TBSS]], the total number increases to 125 MTL words:
A total of 96 MTL words with this property were found in the [[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]]. In general, they are two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up).
 
The following list of 125 MTL words includes data from both Maryknoll and [[TSS]]:


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Revision as of 01:59, 11 May 2018

There is a relatively small number of MTL words that can be converted to more than one valid POJ word. This happens because of loss of tone information when syllables are put together to form a word (tone sandhi).

A total of 96 MTL words with this property were found in the Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary. In general, they are two syllables, where the first syllable's citation tone is either tone 1 (high) or tone 5 (curving-up).

The following list of 125 MTL words includes data from both Maryknoll and TSS:

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