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Contextual stability of Taiwanese tones.

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Title/Author:	Contextual stability of Taiwanese tones./
Author:	Lin, Hwei-Bing.
Description:	1 online resource (166 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International51-06A.
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ISBN:	9798206616064

Contextual stability of Taiwanese tones.
Lin, Hwei-Bing.

Contextual stability of Taiwanese tones. - 1 online resource (166 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Connecticut, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references

There has not been much work on the tones of Taiwanese. Controversial descriptions of tones have appeared in the phonological literature. The present study attempts to provide more consistent descriptions of Taiwanese tones through acoustic analyses. In addition, perceptual studies were carried out to explore tonal behaviors in isolation and in context. The first two experiments were designed to see whether consistent patterns underlie tones in isolation and those in context. The acoustic analyses showed that tonal contours obtained in both experiments were rather similar except for the higher offset of the high falling tone in context. Some individual differences among talkers were observed, which may account for discrepancies in earlier results based on very few informants. The phenomena of tone sandhi and of coarticulation effects of Fo are reported in the final production study. Only small perseveratory coarticulation effects were found. Moreover, the sandhi tones differed in their Fo contours from their corresponding tones in isolation. In the second part of the research, perceptual studies of tones in isolation and in context were performed. Since native speakers have no difficulties identifying tones, an experiment was performed to find out the cues that distinguish Taiwanese tones. The results showed that, as found in other tone languages, tones in Taiwanese are mainly cued by Fo. In addition, the primacy of cues to tonal contrasts depends on the Fo patterns to be distinguished, and tones that nominally differ only in level may exhibit perceptually relevant contour differences, and vice versa. In the following two experiments, an attempt was made to see whether the phonetic context exerts any effects on the perception of tones. Identification of tones produced in context was less accurate than that of citation tones, perhaps due to the fact that durational differences among the tones were absent in these productions. In the last two experiments, perception of the sandhi tones with and without contexts was investigated. The results showed that subjects' responses were divided between the phonetic and the underlying forms of the sandhi tones. No effects of sentence contexts were found, but listeners nonetheless applied the sandhi rules more consistently in the latter study due to the fact that they had also been speakers for the materials.

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