[PDF][PDF] Tones and Tunes in Tianjin Mandarin
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This paper investigates the tunes of statements and intonational yes-no questions in Tianjin
Mandarin, a northern dialect of Mandarin. Tianjin Mandarin differs from standard Mandarin
in terms of its tones and tone sandhi rules, but is very similar to standard Mandarin in other
aspects such as syntax. Tianjin Mandarin has four lexical tones (Shi, 2009), which are
roughly symmetrical–L Tone (211) vs. H Tone (455), and LH Tone (113) vs. HL Tone (553).
Two production experiments were conducted to examine the interaction of lexical tones and …
Mandarin, a northern dialect of Mandarin. Tianjin Mandarin differs from standard Mandarin
in terms of its tones and tone sandhi rules, but is very similar to standard Mandarin in other
aspects such as syntax. Tianjin Mandarin has four lexical tones (Shi, 2009), which are
roughly symmetrical–L Tone (211) vs. H Tone (455), and LH Tone (113) vs. HL Tone (553).
Two production experiments were conducted to examine the interaction of lexical tones and …
This paper investigates the tunes of statements and intonational yes-no questions in Tianjin Mandarin, a northern dialect of Mandarin. Tianjin Mandarin differs from standard Mandarin in terms of its tones and tone sandhi rules, but is very similar to standard Mandarin in other aspects such as syntax. Tianjin Mandarin has four lexical tones (Shi, 2009), which are roughly symmetrical–L Tone (211) vs. H Tone (455), and LH Tone (113) vs. HL Tone (553).
Two production experiments were conducted to examine the interaction of lexical tones and intonational tunes of monosyllabic utterances (Experiment 1) and longer utterances (Experiment 2) in Tianjin Mandarin. Eight native speakers of Tianjin Mandarin (4 male and 4 female) were recorded. The central goal of this project was to investigate the interaction of intonational tunes (pitch accents and boundary tones) with lexical tones. Would lexical tones override intonational contours? Or would there be a clear separation between intonational tunes and lexical tones? In Experiment 1, three syllables [ma],[mi] and [mau], each with four lexical tones, were tested for declarative tunes and interrogative tunes. In Experiment 2, those monosyllabic words were taken as target words and embedded in two carrier sentences. This was to keep the target words away from both ends of intonational phrases. The two carrier sentences differed in the tone preceding the target words, one being a LH tone while the other, a HL tone. The difference was aimed at investigating the effect of tone sandhi on tunes.
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