37.2632, Books: Production and Online Processing of Tonal Coarticulation in Standard Chinese: Hasanah (2026)

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Date: 06-Aug-2026
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Production and Online Processing of Tonal Coarticulation in Standard Chinese: Hasanah (2026)


Title: Production and Online Processing of Tonal Coarticulation in
Standard Chinese
Subtitle: Evidence from L1 Speakers and L2 Learners
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0723

Author(s): Hana Nurul Hasanah

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-508-4
Pages: 229
Price: 37,00 euros

Abstract:

This dissertation aims to extend our understanding of the production
and processing of coarticulation from the segmental to the
suprasegmental domain by focusing on tonal coarticulation in Standard
Chinese (SC) bisyllabic nonce words. Through a detailed acoustic
study, it presents evidence that a less-studied second language (L2)
learner group in L2 tone research, namely Indonesian learners of SC,
can acquire SC bitonal coarticulation patterns to some extent. Their
patterns also exhibit a developmental trajectory in the acquisition of
tonal coarticulation that differs from that reported for other
non-tonal L2 learner groups, such as Dutch learners of SC. These
findings offer further insights into existing theories of L2 speech
learning, particularly regarding how suprasegmental details at the
sub-tonemic, non-contrastive level can be acquired by learners whose
L1 lacks direct counterparts.  Using two visual-world eye-tracking
experiments, this dissertation demonstrates that the perceptual
benefit of non-contrastive cues observed in segments also extends to
lexical tones, in both anticipatory dissimilation and carryover
assimilation. By comparing time-course data from L1 speakers and
Indonesian L2 learners of SC, this dissertation sheds light on how
contextual F0 realizations of lexical tones are represented and
processed depending on the listener’s prior experience with
fine-grained tonal cues. Additionally, L1 speakers’ utilization of
such tonal cues during speech recognition further suggests that
fine-grained coarticulatory information at the suprasegmental level
needs to be incorporated in models of speech representation and
recognition.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics

Subject Language(s): Chinese (zho)

Language Family(ies): Chinese




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