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Date: 07-Mar-2009
From: Parcival von Schmid < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Perception of the tone contrast in East Limburgian dialects:
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Title: Perception of the Tone Contrast in East Limburgian Dialects 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series 196  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Rachel Fournier

Paperback: ISBN:  9789078328704 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 20.19


Abstract:

East Limburgian dialects are typological goldmines. On the one hand, they
resemble tone languages like Chinese, in that they can express word-level
semantic contrasts by means of pitch only. On the other hand, they use
pitch to distinguish sentence-level meanings such as the statement/question
opposition, just like non-tone languages do. For instance, if a Roermond
speaker says haas with a steep fall in its melody, one can infer that this
word means 'hare' and is pronounced as a statement. If, however, haas is
realized with a low flat contour followed by a steep rise, it means 'glove'
and forms a yes/no question. The number of melodic contours that results
from all possible combinations of tones (conveying lexical meanings) and
intonations (conveying discourse meanings) is further boosted by two
structural factors of variation, the focus condition and position of a word
within the sentence. Given all these dimensions, one may indeed wonder how
native speakers manage to find their way in the sentences they hear.

The present thesis examines the perception of East Limburgian lexical tones
as a function of the parameters mentioned above, using the dialects of
Roermond and Venlo. Our results are mainly based on behavioral studies
which consisted in identifying or discriminating words in different
contexts, but we also explored the brain reactions of native and non-native
listeners when they were exposed to tonal and intonational contrasts. 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Limburgisch (lim)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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