29.2672, Books: Setting the Tone: Ramachers

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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:47:28
From: Karijn Hootsen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Setting the Tone: Ramachers

 


Title: Setting the Tone 
Subtitle: Acquisition and processing of lexical tone in East-Limburgian dialects of
Dutch 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/setting-the-tone-acquisition-and-processing-of-lexical-tone-in-east-limburgian-dialects-of-dutch 


Author: Stefanie Ramachers

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932694 Pages: 267 Price: Europe EURO 34.00


Abstract:

This thesis provides a cross-linguistic investigation into the developmental
perception and lexical representation of word-level pitch differences. The
focus is on Limburgian dialects of Dutch, a group of closely related
restricted tone languages spoken in the south of the Netherlands. Compared to
typically studied tone languages like Mandarin Chinese, word-level pitch in
Limburgian has a relatively low functional load. Moreover, the Limburgian
lexical pitch patterns show an intriguing amount of phonetic variability as a
function of the prosodic context.

Results from a series of behavioural experiments provide insights into lexical
tone discrimination in Limburgian infants and adults, as well as into the role
of pitch during word learning and recognition in child and adult speakers of
Limburgian.

By studying the processing of tone in Limburgian, we are able to address the
potential influence of functional load and phonetic variability on the
developing perception and representation of lexical tone in a restricted tone
system.

Throughout the thesis, speakers of Limburgian are compared to control groups
of speakers of non-tonal Standard Dutch, in order to investigate whether the
different functions of pitch in the two languages cause differences in pitch
processing.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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