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Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Representation and Interaction with Utterance-level Prosody ...
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Zhang, Yixin. - : Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 2022
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In Standard Mandarin, there are syllables that do not carry any of the four citation tones (T1: High-level tone, T2: Mid-rising tone, T3: Low-convex tone and T4: High-falling tone), and they are said to have a neutral tone (NT). These syllables are usually shorter, lighter, prosodically grouped with the preceding CT-bearing syllables. These characteristics of NT have led to a prevailing view that it has no underlying phonological specification. However, research has focused more on how the surface pitch variations of NT are realized rather than the underlying representation of NT. In contrast, morphological, sociolinguistic and diachronic work on NT has suggested that NT may not be a homogeneous entity. In this thesis, I provide acoustic and psycholinguistic evidence that there are two types of NT, Intrinsic NT and Derived NT. Intrinsic NT refers to morphemes that were lexicalized as tone-deleted, unstressed syllables even before the formation of the four CTs of modern Mandarin. Derived NT refers to ... : CHINA Scholarship COUNCIL (CSC) and Cambridge Trust ...
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Lexical stress; Mandarin tone; Neutral tone; Tone and Intonation
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.79717
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332272
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Learning to Perceive Non-Native Tones via Distributional Training: Effects of Task and Acoustic Cue Weighting
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In: Brain Sciences; Volume 12; Issue 5; Pages: 559 (2022)
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Computational Modelling of Tone Perception Based on Direct Processing of f0 Contours
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In: Brain Sciences; Volume 12; Issue 3; Pages: 337 (2022)
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Checked Syllables, Checked Tones, and Tone Sandhi in Xiapu Min
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In: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 1; Pages: 47 (2022)
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Luanyjang Dinka noun number morphology database ...
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Unkn Unknown. - : University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences., 2022
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Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum ...
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Representing Multiple Dependencies in Prosodic Structures
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2022)
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L2, L3 and heritage acquisition of Chinese T3 sandhi: comprehensibility and accentedness
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Grandfather effects in Laoling disyllabic tone sandhi
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 5237 ; 2473-8689 (2022)
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