Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: Five disyllabic tone sandhi patterns in cognate words from the Wu dialects of Zhèjiāng province
| dc.contributor.author | Rose, Phil | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-01T07:41:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-01T07:41:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | en |
| dc.description.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. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Two main sources of data were used: tape-recordings made by Prof. Zhu Xiaonong and his assistant in the mid to late 90’s as part his post-doctoral survey of Wu tones and tone sandhi funded by a large Fellowship Grant from the Australian Research Council; and tape-recordings made about a decade earlier by Prof. William Ballard in early 1988 as part of his survey of tones and tone sandhi in southern Wu varieties, funded by the US National Endowment for Humanities [26]. I record my gratitude to Profs. Ballard and Zhu for making their valuable recordings available for digitization and analysis. This material was supplemented by recordings made by my students and myself over about the last 45 years, but consisting primarily of tape-recordings I made in the mid-70’s, of older speakers from the N.E. of the Zhejiang area around Ningbo. All three sets of recordings were primarily intended to elicit data for analyzing disyllabic Wu tone sandhi, as well as, of course, tones on monosyllables. Because of this, the same words are often found in all three sets. All recordings used in this paper may be listened to, and the acoustic results viewed, on my web-site: https://philjohnrose.net. The data are also available upon request to anyone interested in further acoustic-phonetic research of the speech of this area. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer-reviewed | en |
| dc.format.extent | 5 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2308-457X | en |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 85054969151 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733798856 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication, INTERSPEECH 2018 | en |
| dc.rights | Publisher Copyright: © 2018 International Speech Communication Association. All rights reserved. | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH | en |
| dc.subject | Dialect geography | en |
| dc.subject | Extrinsic F0 normalisation. tonal cognates | en |
| dc.subject | Lexical tone sandhi | en |
| dc.subject | Wu dialects | en |
| dc.title | Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: Five disyllabic tone sandhi patterns in cognate words from the Wu dialects of Zhèjiāng province | en |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | en |
| local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 2737 | en |
| local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 2733 | en |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Rose, Phil; Sch of Culture History & Lang, School of Culture, History & Language, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University | en |
| local.identifier.ariespublication | u3102795xPUB1665 | en |
| local.identifier.citationvolume | 2018-September | en |
| local.identifier.doi | 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1130 | en |
| local.identifier.pure | 8f90fe04-dc6f-459b-b9b1-b60ac6938ed9 | en |
| local.identifier.url | https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85054969151 | en |
| local.type.status | Published | en |