Analyzing Nanjing Tones and Sandhi: statistical modelling methods.

Si Chen; Caroline Wiltshire; Bin Li; Ratree Wayland

doi:10.3765/amp.v7i0.4479

Analyzing Nanjing Tones and Sandhi: statistical modelling methods.

Si Chen, Caroline Wiltshire, Bin Li, Ratree Wayland

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

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Abstract

In this study, we used growth curve analysis to model the surface f0 contours of the sandhi tones, and we also modelled the underlying pitch target of sandhi tones and their corresponding citation tones in Nanjing Chinese. The underlying pitch targets of reported sandhi tones showed neutralization with reported base tones in most cases, but the surface f0 contours of each pair were not neutralized. Our results provided acoustic evidence for the debate over the existence of some tone sandhi rules in Nanjing Chinese based on impressionistic data. Finally, transcription modification of some monosyllabic Nanjing Chinese tones was recommended based on the transformation of the results of the statistical modelling of the acoustic data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology
Publisher	Linguistic Society of America
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v7i0.4479
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2019
Event	6th Annual Meeting on Phonology - University of California, San Diego, United States Duration: 5 Oct 2018 → 7 Oct 2018

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Conference	6th Annual Meeting on Phonology
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	5/10/18 → 7/10/18

Keywords

Tone sandhi
Underlying pitch targets
Nanjing Chinese

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