TY - JOUR
T1 - Carryover effects on tones in Hong Kong Cantonese
AU - Li, Bin
AU - Guan, Yihan
AU - Chen, Si
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by EDB(LE)/P&R/EL/175/12 and CityU TDG 6000653. We thank students in LT2203 (Language and Society) for their contribution in data collection.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - Tonal coarticulation has been found in connected speech in many tonal languages. The current study investigated the carryover effect on tones of Hong Kong Cantonese (Cantonese), by examining F0 perturbation and preservation of two rising tones (T2 and T5) under the influence of a preceding tone (Tx). Twenty-three young adults were recruited to read a wordlist containing disyllabic words (Tx+T2/T5) and monosyllabic characters in six lexical tones. Onsets, offsets, and contours of T2 and T5 were measured and entered for statistical analyses. The carryover effect of high and low tones was found on T2 and T5. The coarticulation triggered by the low tone carried throughout the entire tonal contour while the coarticulation triggered by the high tone did not, as offsets of pitch contours of T2 and T5 preceded by a high tone reached comparable levels of their own underlying pitch targets.
AB - Tonal coarticulation has been found in connected speech in many tonal languages. The current study investigated the carryover effect on tones of Hong Kong Cantonese (Cantonese), by examining F0 perturbation and preservation of two rising tones (T2 and T5) under the influence of a preceding tone (Tx). Twenty-three young adults were recruited to read a wordlist containing disyllabic words (Tx+T2/T5) and monosyllabic characters in six lexical tones. Onsets, offsets, and contours of T2 and T5 were measured and entered for statistical analyses. The carryover effect of high and low tones was found on T2 and T5. The coarticulation triggered by the low tone carried throughout the entire tonal contour while the coarticulation triggered by the high tone did not, as offsets of pitch contours of T2 and T5 preceded by a high tone reached comparable levels of their own underlying pitch targets.
KW - Cantonese tones
KW - Carryover effects
KW - F0 perturbation
KW - Preservation
KW - Tonal coarticulation
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U2 - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-100
DO - 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-100
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85093906617
SN - 2333-2042
VL - 2020-May
SP - 489
EP - 493
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
T2 - 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020
Y2 - 25 May 2020 through 28 May 2020
ER -