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Hyman, Larry M. – Language Sciences, 2009
In this paper I argue for a property-driven approach to phonological typology. Rather than seeking to classify or label languages, the central goal of phonological typology is to determine how different languages systematize the phonetic substance available to all languages. The paper focuses on a very murky area in phonological typology,…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Language Classification, Phonology, Phonetics
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Josiah, Ubong Ekerete; Udoudom, Juliet Charles – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
Linguists generally acknowledge that there exists an inevitable inter-relationship between different levels of linguistic analysis--phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Various linguistic labels are used to describe such a link. In particular, there exists a bridge between the phonology and morphology of particular languages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Morphophonemics, English
Bradley, Evan David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the ways in which experience with lexical tone influences the perception of musical melody, and how musical training influences the perception of lexical tone. The central theoretical basis for the study is a model of perceptual learning, Reverse Hierarchy Theory (Ahissar et al., 2009), in which cognitive processes…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Music, Intonation, Cognitive Processes
Morrison, Michelle Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a grammar of Rena (ISO bez), a Bantu language spoken in southwestern Tanzania by approximately 600,000 people. Bena is largely undocumented, and though aspects of Bena grammar have been described, there is no usable, detailed treatment of the Bena language. Therefore the goal of this dissertation is provide the first detailed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
Stebbins, Jeff Roesler – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Vietnamese (Vietic, Mon-Khmer, Austroasiatic) is monosyllabic and tonal. Most Mon-Khmer (MK) languages are multisyllabic and atonal. Evidence suggests that Vietnamese (VN) has had its tones less than one millennium, and that other languages (both MK and non-MK) are also acquiring tones, a process called "tonogenesis". Comparing VN's…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonetics, Vietnamese, Tone Languages
Kim, Jungsun – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigated the perception and production of dialectally variant prosodic properties in Korean. The current study was focused on the tonal system of North Kyungsang and South Cholla Korean to understand how lexical pitch accent, which is a property of the North Kyungsang variety, is realized by native and non-native speakers of…
Descriptors: Dialects, Identification, Identification (Psychology), Native Speakers
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Wong, Patrick C. M.; Ettlinger, Marc – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
We report two sets of experiments showing that the large individual variability in language learning success in adults can be attributed to neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, cognitive, and perceptual factors. In the first set of experiments, native English-speaking adults learned to incorporate lexically meaningfully pitch patterns in words. We…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Phonology, Tone Languages
Liu, Jiang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Recent psycholinguistic findings showed that (a) a multi-modal phonetic training paradigm that encodes visual, interactive information is more effective in training L2 learners' perception of novel categories, (b) decreasing the acoustic variance of a phonetic dimension allows the learners to more effectively shift the perceptual weight towards…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese
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Bidelman, Gavin M.; Gandour, Jackson T.; Krishnan, Ananthanarayan – Brain and Cognition, 2011
Behavioral and neurophysiological transfer effects from music experience to language processing are well-established but it is currently unclear whether or not linguistic expertise (e.g., speaking a tone language) benefits music-related processing and its perception. Here, we compare brainstem responses of English-speaking musicians/non-musicians…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Music, Tone Languages, Musicians
Padayodi, Cecile Mamalinani – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study suggests revisions to the segmental and tonal phonology of Kabiye following a reanalysis of consonants, vowels, and tones in the speech of 7 male native speakers. Acoustic investigations are also included to illustrate some phonetic aspects of segments and tone. Data were elicited through three speech styles--wordlists, short phrases,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Phonetics, Vowels, Phonemics
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Nan, Yun; Sun, Yanan; Peretz, Isabelle – Brain, 2010
Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder that affects the processing of musical pitch in speakers of non-tonal languages like English and French. We assessed whether this musical disorder exists among speakers of Mandarin Chinese who use pitch to alter the meaning of words. Using the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia, we tested 117…
Descriptors: Music, Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Disabilities
Alexander, Jennifer Alexandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Lexical-tone languages use fundamental frequency (F0/pitch) to convey word meaning. About 41.8% of the world's languages use lexical tone (Maddieson, 2008), yet those systems are under-studied. I aim to increase our understanding of speech-sound inventory organization by extending to tone-systems a model of vowel-system organization, the Theory of…
Descriptors: Vowels, Semantics, Thai, Mandarin Chinese
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Skidmore, David; Murakami, Kyoko – International Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Prosody refers to features of speech such as intonation, volume and pace. In this paper, we examine teacher-student dialogue in an English lesson at a secondary school in England, using Conversation Analysis notation to mark features of prosody. We also make connections with Goffman's theoretical concept of footing. We show that, within an episode…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Intonation, Poetry
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Krishnan, Ananthanarayan; Gandour, Jackson T. – Brain and Language, 2009
Historically, the brainstem has been neglected as a part of the brain involved in language processing. We review recent evidence of language-dependent effects in pitch processing based on comparisons of native vs. nonnative speakers of a tonal language from electrophysiological recordings in the auditory brainstem. We argue that there is enhancing…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Brain, Language Processing, Native Speakers
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Liu, Ying; Wang, Min; Perfetti, Charles A.; Brubaker, Brian; Wu, Sumei; MacWhinney, Brian – Language Learning, 2011
Learning the Chinese tone system is a major challenge to students of Chinese as a second or foreign language. Part of the problem is that the spoken Chinese syllable presents a complex perceptual input that overlaps tone with segments. This complexity can be addressed through directing attention to the critical features of a component (tone in…
Descriptors: College Students, Spelling, Computer Interfaces, Mandarin Chinese
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