Affiliation:
1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2. University of Florida
3. City University of Hong Kong
Abstract
Abstract
Two statistical modelling methods are first used to quantify the third tone sandhi in Standard Mandarin in which
the first falling-rising T3 becomes a rising T2 in the T3 + T3 disyllabic context. Growth curve analysis
suggests non-neutralization of the surface F0 contours of the sandhi tone and its corresponding citation tone (T2), whereas a
quantitative F0 target approximation model reveals neutralization of their underlying pitch targets, congruent with the stable and
categorical tone shift properties of tone sandhi processes. The same statistical procedure is successfully extended to examine
tone sandhi rules in Nanjing Mandarin. Our analysis leads to a proposal to change tonal values based on the Chao’s number system
of some Nanjing Mandarin monosyllabic tones. The transformation method from acoustic data to Chao’s number applies well to our
data and proves superior to those previously described in the literature.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Reference66 articles.
1. Northern and southern Vietnamese tonal coarticulation: A Comparative Case Study;Brunelle;Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics,2009
2. Tonal coarticulation in Malaysian Hokkien: A typological anomaly?
3. Mandarin Primer
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献