Tones in Zhangzhou : pitch and beyond / by Yishan Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Yishan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern Min dialects--China--Zhangzhou Shi--Tone.

Southern Min dialects.

China--Zhangzhou Shi.

Physical Description:

vi, 275 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Contents:

1.1 Motivations p. 1

1.3 Tonetics p. 8

1.4 Southern Min Tone Sandhi p. 13

Chapter 2 Methodologies p. 25

2.1 Research Locality p. 25

2.2 Research Participants p. 28

2.3 Data Elicitation p. 30

2.4 Acoustic Processing p. 33

2.5 Statistical Testing p. 38

Chapter 3 Syllables and Segments p. 42

3.1 Syllables p. 42

3.2 Onsets (C) p. 43

3.3 Glides (G) p. 45

3.4 Nuclei (V) p. 46

3.5 Codas (C) p. 50

Chapter 4 Citation Tones

4.1 Pitch/F0 p. 57

4.2 Duration p. 63

4.3 Vowel Quality p. 66

4.4 Voice Quality p. 70

4.5 Syllable Coda p. 75

Chapter 5 Phrase-initial Tones p. 83

5.1 F0 p. 83

5.2 Duration p. 110

5.3 Vowel Quality p. 124

5.4 Voice Quality p. 127

5.5 Syllable Coda p. 133

Chapter 6 Phrase-final Tones

6.1 F0 p. 140

6.2 Duration p. 165

6.3 Vowel Quality p. 180

6.4 Voice Quality p. 183

6.5 Syllable Coda p. 187

Chapter 7 Theoretical Considerations p. 193

7.1 Right Dominance p. 193

7.2 Syntactic Sensitivity p. 195

7.3 Phonologically Inert p. 199

7.4 Phonetically Sensitive p. 201

7.5 Morphological Nature p. 203

7.6 Comparison with Other Southern Min Studies p. 217

8.1 Significant Findings p. 219

8.2 Recommendation for Future Research p. 224.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781527544215

1527544214

OCLC:

1131753332

Publisher Number:

99983923970