6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018)最新文献

The significance of scope in modelling tones in Chinese 范围在汉语造形语气中的意义

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-37

B. Gerazov, G. Bailly, Yi Xu

引用次数: 3

Construction-based tone patterns in Choguita Raramuri and Cilungu 长基塔语、拉摩里语和奇伦古语中基于结构的声调模式

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-9

Gabriella Caballero, Sharon Rose

引用次数: 1

Falsetto tones and Their Evolution in the Southern Hubei 鄂南地区的假声及其演变

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-41

Caiyu Wang

引用次数: 0

The phonetic realization of tonal contrast in Dränjongke Dränjongke中声调对比的语音实现

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-44

Seunghun J. Lee, H. Hwang, Tomoko Monou, S. Kawahara

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引用次数: 2

Depressor consonants and the tones of Tonjungbe 降压辅音和通戎贝的声调

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-45

Kpoglu Promise Dodzi, P. Cédric

引用次数: 0

Tonal Hybridization in Yami-Mandarin Contact 雅国语接触中的音调杂交

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-7

Li-Fang Lai, Shelome Gooden

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引用次数: 3

The roles of pitch and phonation in Vietnamese and Mandarin 越南语和普通话中音高和发音的作用

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-49

I. Vogel, Angeliki A. Athanasopoulou

{"title":"The roles of pitch and phonation in Vietnamese and Mandarin","authors":"I. Vogel, Angeliki A. Athanasopoulou","doi":"10.21437/tal.2018-49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tal.2018-49","url":null,"abstract":"(200 words) Pitch and phonation may be used individually or together in languages: some languages do not make systematic use of either property, others use one or the other, and others a combination, where different relationships may hold. We investigate this last option in Mandarin and Vietnamese using substantial, systematically collected corpora, first with auditory and visual (spectrogram) assessment of the presence of Creaky Phonation (CP), then with acoustic and statistical (Binary Logistic Regression) Analyses. We focus on the s ắ c and ngã tones in Vietnamese, claimed to contrast in CP not F0, and all four tones of Mandarin, where CP often arises with Tone 3 (dipping), and possibly others. We propose that despite differences in the distribution of F0 and CP, both languages crucially require underlying tonal contrasts, but differ in the source and role of CP. In Mandarin, CP correlates with low F0, as a type of “artifact”, resulting in gender differences. In Vietnamese, CP cannot be due to F0, as it appears with high tones; instead, it is an additional “gesture” speakers may introduce along with F0 in producing the ngã tone, but need not, as seen in the emergence of two speaker groups based on their use of CP. studies show that in Vietnamese, CP (not F0) is the crucial contrastive cue for the s ắ c vs. ngã tones, but in Mandarin that CP enhances perception of T3, while F0 remains the main cue. Our investigation shows that, despite differences, in production, Vietnamese and Mandarin rely on F0 to make the tonal contrasts. The fundamental difference is that in Mandarin, CP is essentially an “artifact” of the low F0, and thus occurs in more cases with Males than Females, while in Vietnamese, CP occurs with high F0 values, and thus is an additional “gesture” that may, but need not, be used to enhance the ngã tone, hence the two speaker groups.","PeriodicalId":233495,"journal":{"name":"6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122018645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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the common word prosody in Northern Wu 北吴常用词韵律

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-2

Jianjing Kuang, Jiapeng Tian, Yipei Zhou

引用次数: 4

Head beats as pitch-accompanying visual correlates of primary and secondary lexical stress: evidence from Stockholm Swedish compounds 头拍作为伴随音高的主要和次要词汇重音的视觉相关性:来自斯德哥尔摩瑞典语复合词的证据

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/TAL.2018-25

A. Kelterer, G. Ambrazaitis, D. House

引用次数: 2

A Preliminary Study on the Productivity of Mandarin T3 Sandhi in Mandarin-speaking Children 普通话儿童汉语T3变调能力的初步研究

6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 DOI: 10.21437/tal.2018-18

Xunan Huang, Gaoyuan Zhang, Caicai Zhang

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引用次数: 3