Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi
This paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. It is based on data collected in 2018 from two female native speake...
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| author | Chen, Sherry Yong Kenstowicz, Michael J. |
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| description | This paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. It is based on data collected in 2018 from two female native speakers. Our data is analyzed with Praat (Boersma and Weenick in Praat: doing phonetics by computer, 1992–2021) to document the F0 and duration correlates to the tonal categories and their sandhi changes. Evidence is presented for the representation of the tones in terms of Register and Contour (Bao in On the nature of tone, 1990; The structure of tone, Oxford University Press, 1999). One of the sandhis is analyzed as the conjunction of two Optimality Theoretic (Prince and Smolensky in Optimality theory, MIT Press, 1993, 2004) markedness constraints. A lexically-determined reflex of the Middle Chinese <jats:italic>chiuhsheng</jats:italic> metatony is also documented. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1543052025-01-02T04:28:31Z Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi Chen, Sherry Yong Kenstowicz, Michael J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy This paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. It is based on data collected in 2018 from two female native speakers. Our data is analyzed with Praat (Boersma and Weenick in Praat: doing phonetics by computer, 1992–2021) to document the F0 and duration correlates to the tonal categories and their sandhi changes. Evidence is presented for the representation of the tones in terms of Register and Contour (Bao in On the nature of tone, 1990; The structure of tone, Oxford University Press, 1999). One of the sandhis is analyzed as the conjunction of two Optimality Theoretic (Prince and Smolensky in Optimality theory, MIT Press, 1993, 2004) markedness constraints. A lexically-determined reflex of the Middle Chinese <jats:italic>chiuhsheng</jats:italic> metatony is also documented. 2024-04-29T15:46:11Z 2024-04-29T15:46:11Z 2024-04-27 2024-04-28T03:15:51Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0925-8558 1572-8560 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154305 hen, S.Y., Kenstowicz, M.J. Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi. J East Asian Linguist (2024). PUBLISHER_CC en 10.1007/s10831-023-09271-9 Journal of East Asian Linguistics Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Author(s) application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Netherlands |
| spellingShingle | Chen, Sherry Yong Kenstowicz, Michael J. Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi |
| title | Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi |
| title_full | Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi |
| title_fullStr | Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi |
| title_short | Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi |
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