Same tone, different category
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Steed, William
Rose, Phil
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Acoustic and auditory data are presented for the citation tones of single speakers from nine sites (eight hitherto undescribed in English) from the little-studied Chuqu subgroup of Wu in East Central China: Lìshuǐ, Lóngquán Qìngyuán, Lóngyóu, Jìnyún, Qingtián Yúnhé, Jǐngní ng, and Táishùn. The data demonstrate a high degree of complexity, having no less than 22 linguistic-tonetically different tones. The nature of the complexity of these forms is discussed, especially with respect to whether the variation is continuous or categorical, and inferences are drawn on their historical development.
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Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
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