Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20394927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sherry Yong Chen (0000-0002-6471-506X, Amazon (United States)), Michael Kenstowicz (IIT@MIT, corresponding author), Michael J Kenstowicz |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-69 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of East Asian Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-8558 • E-ISSN: 1572-8560 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10831-023-09271-9 |
| OpenAlex | W4395693894 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
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 chiuhsheng metatony is also documented
Comparative linguistics · Linguistics · Markedness · Optimality theory · Phonetics · Phonology · Political science · Sociology · Theoretical linguistics · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory
Tone Sandhi
The Phonology of Standard Chinese
Optimality Theory
Tone in Lexical Phonology
Contour tones
A directional asymmetry in Chinese tone sandhi systems
Crosslinguistic trends in tone change
Old Chinese
The geometry of phonological features
On distinctive features and their articulatory implementation
Middle Chinese
Contextual tonal variations in Mandarin
Maximum speed of pitch changes in singers and untrained subjects
On the Role of the Obligatory Contour Principle in Phonological Theory
Metrical and Tonal Phonology of Compounds in Two Chinese Dialects
Middle Chinese. A Study in Historical Phonology
Derivation By Tone-Change In Classical Chinese
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |