30.203, Books: Tone and Intonation Processing: Liu

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:33:06
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Tone and Intonation Processing: Liu

 


Title: Tone and Intonation Processing 
Subtitle: From Ambiguous Acoustic Signal to Linguistic Representation 
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/tone-and-intonation-processing-from-ambiguous-acoustic-signal-to-linguistic-representation 


Author: Min Liu

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932991 Pages: 207 Price: Europe EURO 31


Abstract:

The most prominent prosodic feature of tonal languages such as Standard
Chinese is their use of pitch to distinguish lexical meanings (i.e., tone).
However, speech ambiguity arises in Standard Chinese because the same pitch
contour can also cue another linguistic function (i.e., intonation) in the
same linguistic system. As most Standard Chinese speakers also speak another
local Chinese dialect, speed ambiguity can furthermore arise when the same or
similar pitch contours cue the same linguistic function (e.g., tone), but
different categories of that function in two linguistic systems of a
bi-dialectal speaker. This dissertation investigates how pitch is processed
within a linguistic system (i.e., Standard Chinese) and across two linguistic
systems (i.e., Standard Chinese and Xi’an Mandarin) when the same pitch
contour cues different linguistic functions (i.e., tone and intonation) or
different categories of the same linguistic function (i.e., tone).

Through four experimental studies, this dissertation has demonstrated that
pitch processing in Standard Chinese is subject to both within- and
cross-linguistic influences. The ambiguous acoustic signals due to dual
functions of the F0 channel in signalling tone and intonation in Standard
Chinese cause pitch processing difficulty at the sentential level. This pitch
processing difficulty has a neural correlate and can be resolved via top-down
information provided by a constraining semantic context. A closely related
Chinese dialect that shares tonal similarities with Standard Chinese can also
cause acoustic ambiguities. The cross-dialect tonal similarities affect tone
processing and further interfere in lexical access during spoken word
recognition in bi-dialectal tonal language speakers.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Phonetics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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