32.756, Books: Consonant and lexical tone interaction: Shi

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:03:47
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Consonant and lexical tone interaction: Shi

 


Title: Consonant and lexical tone interaction 
Subtitle: Evidence from two Chinese dialects 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/consonant-and-lexical-tone-interaction-evidence-from-two-chinese-dialects 


Author: Menghui Shi

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933511 Pages: 251 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

This dissertation provides a comprehensive look at the consonant-tone
interaction embedded in a description of the sound system of two
under-documented Chinese dialects, namely Lili Wu Chinese and Shuangfeng Xiang
Chinese. In the existing literature, consonant-tone interaction generally
concerns a [voiceless/H]-[voiced/L] co-occurrence pattern. A high tone usually
co-occurs with a voiceless consonant, while a low tone usually co-occurs with
a voiced consonant. However, largely because of the high level of homogeneity
in the languages sampled, and the lack of access to up-to-date statistical
techniques, this [voiceless/H]-[voiced/L] pattern has veiled the full picture
of consonant-tone interaction across the world’s languages.

Based on a series of phonetic studies of phonological contrasts, there are two
key findings that contribute to our understanding of the diversity in
consonant-tone interaction. First, voiceless aspirated onsets can also
co-occur with low tones. This finding is antagonistic to the
[voiceless/H]-[voiced/L] pattern which posits that only contrastively voiced
onsets can be in favor of low tones. Second, the realization of consonant-tone
interaction is not only specific between languages but also within languages.
Speakers of different generations of a given language can utilize phonetic
cues differently to signal the same phonological contrasts.

This dissertation will be of interest to experimental phoneticians, laboratory
phonologists, as well as to those interested in sound change. Understanding
the interaction between consonant and tone also contributes to our knowledge
of the sound systems of Chinese dialects and more broadly speaking,
phonology-phonetics interface.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

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


Written In: English  (eng)

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