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

Philip Rose

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    Abstract

    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 languageEnglish
    Pages2733-2737
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018
    Event19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication, INTERSPEECH 2018 - Hyderabad, India
    Duration: 2 Sept 20186 Sept 2018

    Conference

    Conference19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication, INTERSPEECH 2018
    Country/TerritoryIndia
    CityHyderabad
    Period2/09/186/09/18

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