Abstract
This study considered the tone sandhi pattern of Chinese and error patterns of Koreans in Chinese BU and YI tone sandhi.BR First, both Chinese and Koreans have more difficulty in Yi tone sandhi than in BU tone sandhi. Second, the structure of BU+A+BU+B and YI+A+YI+B were same in form, but the duration showed difference according to the meaning of YI and the position of the syllable. Third, although BU has two syllables as its prosody unit, when it is uttered within in four syllables, BU is basically a weak syllable and most of the time it becomes even weaker, so it also has four syllables as its prosody unit in actual speech. Fourth, in actual speech, YI becomes a stressed syllable of a two-syllable prosody word so no tone sandhi occurs in the second and fourth syllables. Fifth, tone sandhi has no influence on duration. Sixth, Koreans showed an assimilation phenomenon that tones of BU and YI became as same as a tone of back syllable as a tone sandhi error type.
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