Phonological Tone

Wee, Lian Hee

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“…Tone sandhi occurs when two adjacent tones have 'conflicting collocations,' which do not invite easy natural transition but require manipulation of the larynx. It does not occur in compatible collocations such as the high tone followed by a falling tone which allows a smooth transition (Wee, 2019). According to Shih (2013) Mandarin third-tone sandhi provides strong evidence for a hierarchically organized prosodic structure and allows researchers to investigate some important phonological concepts.…”

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Production of Mandarin Chinese Tones by Sri Lankan CFL Learners: An Acoustic Analysis

Dassanayake

2023

JFLTL

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Tonal variation in Mandarin forms a relationship with the meanings of words at a lexical level. Tones and tone sandhi are considered distinctive features of Mandarin Chinese phonetics; thus, acquiring accurate Mandarin pronunciation is challenging for speakers of other languages. The present study examined the production of Mandarin tones by Sri Lankan learners through acoustic analysis of f0 using Praat. The study participants were seven (n=7) undergraduate students at intermediate-level Chinese. Each participant recorded a sample of 20 elements, totaling 140 at three tiers: isolation, disyllabic form, and synthesis. The recorded acoustic data were analyzed using Praat 5.4.04 and SPSS Statistics 21. The results indicated that the mean f0 values of the realization of the four tones by the informants are heterogenous at all three tiers. The realization of T3 demonstrated a low accuracy, while T2 was realized with the highest accuracy at all three tiers. As revealed by the tone sandhi analysis, participants have resorted to the underlying representation of the tone sandhi than the surface realization.

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Production of Mandarin Chinese Tones by Sri Lankan CFL Learners: An Acoustic Analysis

Dassanayake

2023

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“…32 32 On tone, see Thurgood (2002, 31) and Wee (2019). Previous linguistic work in mainland Southeast Asia shows evidence that metalanguage need not distinguish the two sub‐types of system.…”

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The limits of thematization

Zuckerman,

Enfield

2023

J Linguistic Anthropol

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A fundamental capacity of language is its reflexivity. But not every aspect of language is equally accessible to being reflected upon. Michael Silverstein's 1981 paper, the “Limits of Awareness,” set the terms of this discussion in linguistic anthropology with his study of speakers' “awareness” of pragmatic forms and their corresponding capacity to talk about them. His notion of differential “awareness” of aspects of language has since been foundational to linguistic‐anthropological understandings of language ideologies. Here we consider Silverstein's argument with reference to our research in Laos, exploring the limits of metalinguistic discourse. We argue that the apparent constraints on our capacity to talk about aspects of language do not evidence limits of awareness of elements of language, but rather constraints on our ability to thematize those elements, that is, to bring them into joint attention. The central issue is thematization, and the relation of interest is a relation of joint attention between speakers. Metalanguage is thus constrained not (only) by psychological limits but by the social and semiotic limits on what people can bring into mutual focus within interactions. To present our framing of the issue and show what it helps us see, we distinguish two kinds of thematization and describe their subtypes, affordances, and constraints. We then demonstrate how social conventions—broadly understood—can circumvent these constraints, allowing people to thematize otherwise difficult to thematize forms.

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Tone Systems, Pitch, and Intonation

Stanlaw

Khor

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

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Differences in physical “pitch” (the perceptual response to different frequencies of sound) is a fundamental characteristic of all languages. This entry focuses on three important conceptual constructs, all dealing with sound contours: “tone languages,” “pitch‐accent languages,” and “intonation languages” (sometimes also called “tonal languages,” “accent languages,” and “stress languages”). Generally speaking, tone is usually regarded as a feature of the lexicon – words or morphemes, or syllables of words or morphemes – and functions to indicate lexical meaning. Intonation is thought to be a feature of phrases or sentences, and functions on the level of meaning in discourse.

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Phonological Tone

Abstract: Roadmap: Why do we believe that there is such a thing as TONE? What are the articulatory apparatuses relevant for tone production? How is tone notated or transcribed? What are the acoustic correlates of tone? What can tones do in human languages?

Cited by 11 publications

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Production of Mandarin Chinese Tones by Sri Lankan CFL Learners: An Acoustic Analysis

Production of Mandarin Chinese Tones by Sri Lankan CFL Learners: An Acoustic Analysis

The limits of thematization

Tone Systems, Pitch, and Intonation

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