TY - GEN
T1 - Are mandarin sandhi tone 3 and tone 2 the same or different? The results of functional data analysis
AU - Cheng, Chierh
AU - Chen, Jenn Yeu
AU - Gubian, Michele
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 by Chierh Cheng, Jenn-Yeu Chen, and Michele Gubian.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Functional Data Analysis (FDA) is used to investigate Tone 3 sandhi in Taiwan Mandarin. Tone 3 sandhi is a tone change phenomenon that arises when two low tones occur in succession resulting in the first tone being realised as a rising tone. Tone dyads T2T3 and T3T3 were compared in terms of their F0 contours and velocity profiles. No difference was found between the F0 contours of the two tone dyads. In contrast, velocity profiles showed an increased difference in the later part of the seemingly similar rising movements of T2 and sandhi T3, with a steeper rising-falling movement in the former than the latter. This research demonstrates that FDA can elucidate more detail in the time dimension than that of conventional techniques commonly employed in the current phonetic literature.
AB - Functional Data Analysis (FDA) is used to investigate Tone 3 sandhi in Taiwan Mandarin. Tone 3 sandhi is a tone change phenomenon that arises when two low tones occur in succession resulting in the first tone being realised as a rising tone. Tone dyads T2T3 and T3T3 were compared in terms of their F0 contours and velocity profiles. No difference was found between the F0 contours of the two tone dyads. In contrast, velocity profiles showed an increased difference in the later part of the seemingly similar rising movements of T2 and sandhi T3, with a steeper rising-falling movement in the former than the latter. This research demonstrates that FDA can elucidate more detail in the time dimension than that of conventional techniques commonly employed in the current phonetic literature.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84922827402
T3 - 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, PACLIC 27
SP - 296
EP - 301
BT - 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, PACLIC 27
PB - National Chengchi University
T2 - 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, PACLIC 2013
Y2 - 21 November 2013 through 24 November 2013
ER -