Xiaonan Susan Shen
Biographic Data
| ID | 140961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaonan Susan Shen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaonan Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shen |
| SIGNATURE | SHEN X S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Relative Duration as a Perceptual Cue to Stress in Mandarin
Perceptual tests were carried out to examine (1) whether F o is necessary to perceive stress in Mandarin, and (2) if not, which cue, duration or intensity, is more important. The results indicate that stress can be identified on the basis of duration and intensity alone; duration is a more important cue than intensity. Acoustical analyses of both natural and reiterant speech revealed that both duration and intensity were correlates of stress. The…
A Pilot Study on the Relation between the Temporal and Syntactic Structures in Mandarin
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Concept of tone in Mandarin revisited
A Perceptual Study of Mandarin Tones 2 and 3
Due to their similar concave shapes, Tones 2 and 3 are said to be the most confusable pair in Mandarin, and no reliable perceptual cues have been found. The purpose of this perceptual study was to find (1) the perceptual cues for discriminating these two tones, and (2) the possible causes of listeners' misidentifications. Experiment 1 was designed to test the hypothesis that the timing of the turning point may constitute a perceptual cue. Two fun…
Question intonation in natural speech
Yes-no questions, when unmarked morphologically and syntactically, are marked intonationally. The intonation of this kind of question is generally characterized either by a terminal rise or a higher overall fundamental frequency (F0). Ultan (1978) found that 38 of a sample of 53 languages use the first pattern, and 18 the second. Even in tone languages, these two patterns are not unusual. For example, yes-no questions in Hausa have a final jump t…
On mandarin tone 4∗
This paper attempts to consider empirically the acoustical manifestation of Mandarin Tone 4, a high falling tone, as opposed to its auditory dimension observed first by Y.R. Chao (1948). Chao noticed that a Tone 4 followed by another Tone 4 does not fall to the bottom of the register; he called this tonal variation tone sandhi and set up a sandhi rule: 51+51 ? 53 +51. The present study acoustically analyses 240 Tone 4s spoken by two native Mandar…
Tonal coarticulation in Mandarin
A Perceptual Study of Mandarin Tones 2 and 3
Due to their similar concave shapes, Tones 2 and 3 are said to be the most confusable pair in Mandarin, and no reliable perceptual cues have been found. The purpose of this perceptual study was to find (1) the perceptual cues for discriminating these two tones, and (2) the possible causes of listeners' misidentifications. Experiment 1 was designed to test the hypothesis that the timing of the turning point may constitute a perceptual cue. Two fun…
Tonal coarticulation in Mandarin
Relative Duration as a Perceptual Cue to Stress in Mandarin
Perceptual tests were carried out to examine (1) whether F o is necessary to perceive stress in Mandarin, and (2) if not, which cue, duration or intensity, is more important. The results indicate that stress can be identified on the basis of duration and intensity alone; duration is a more important cue than intensity. Acoustical analyses of both natural and reiterant speech revealed that both duration and intensity were correlates of stress. The…
A Pilot Study on the Relation between the Temporal and Syntactic Structures in Mandarin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On mandarin tone 4∗
This paper attempts to consider empirically the acoustical manifestation of Mandarin Tone 4, a high falling tone, as opposed to its auditory dimension observed first by Y.R. Chao (1948). Chao noticed that a Tone 4 followed by another Tone 4 does not fall to the bottom of the register; he called this tonal variation tone sandhi and set up a sandhi rule: 51+51 ? 53 +51. The present study acoustically analyses 240 Tone 4s spoken by two native Mandar…
On mandarin tone 4∗
This paper attempts to consider empirically the acoustical manifestation of Mandarin Tone 4, a high falling tone, as opposed to its auditory dimension observed first by Y.R. Chao (1948). Chao noticed that a Tone 4 followed by another Tone 4 does not fall to the bottom of the register; he called this tonal variation tone sandhi and set up a sandhi rule: 51+51 ? 53 +51. The present study acoustically analyses 240 Tone 4s spoken by two native Mandar…
Tonal coarticulation in Mandarin
Concept of tone in Mandarin revisited
A Perceptual Study of Mandarin Tones 2 and 3
Due to their similar concave shapes, Tones 2 and 3 are said to be the most confusable pair in Mandarin, and no reliable perceptual cues have been found. The purpose of this perceptual study was to find (1) the perceptual cues for discriminating these two tones, and (2) the possible causes of listeners' misidentifications. Experiment 1 was designed to test the hypothesis that the timing of the turning point may constitute a perceptual cue. Two fun…
Question intonation in natural speech
Yes-no questions, when unmarked morphologically and syntactically, are marked intonationally. The intonation of this kind of question is generally characterized either by a terminal rise or a higher overall fundamental frequency (F0). Ultan (1978) found that 38 of a sample of 53 languages use the first pattern, and 18 the second. Even in tone languages, these two patterns are not unusual. For example, yes-no questions in Hausa have a final jump t…
A Pilot Study on the Relation between the Temporal and Syntactic Structures in Mandarin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Relative Duration as a Perceptual Cue to Stress in Mandarin
Perceptual tests were carried out to examine (1) whether F o is necessary to perceive stress in Mandarin, and (2) if not, which cue, duration or intensity, is more important. The results indicate that stress can be identified on the basis of duration and intensity alone; duration is a more important cue than intensity. Acoustical analyses of both natural and reiterant speech revealed that both duration and intensity were correlates of stress. The…
Linguistics (7 works) · Mandarin Chinese (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Acoustics (5 works) · Physics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Speech recognition (5 works) · Speech Recognition and Synthesis (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works)