Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: Five disyllabic tone sandhi patterns in cognate words from the Wu dialects of Zhèjiāng province

Phil Rose

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1130

Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: Five disyllabic tone sandhi patterns in cognate words from the Wu dialects of Zhèjiāng province

Phil Rose^*

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The typology of tone sandhi patterns on disyllabic tonally cognate words in selected sub-groups of the Wu dialects of the east-central Chinese province of Zhejiang is investigated using data from 48 sites collected over 45 years. A new method of extrinsic z-score normalisation is demonstrated which permits comparison of tones across dialects with different pitch ranges. Five different but typical right-dominant word-tone patterns are identified, acoustically quantified, and their geographical distribution specified. It is hypothesized that changes in isolation tones, and different types of dissimilation of the first tone from the word-final tone, are a possible origin of the observed variation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2733-2737
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Volume	2018-September
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1130
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication, INTERSPEECH 2018 - Hyderabad, India Duration: 2 Sept 2018 → 6 Sept 2018

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Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: Five disyllabic tone sandhi patterns in cognate words from the Wu dialects of Zhèjiāng province. / Rose, Phil.
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2018-September, 2018, p. 2733-2737.

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