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Xi Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mandarin is a tone language that is spoken by billions of people in the world. Despite huge demand, there is a lack of assessment and treatment tools targeting Mandarin speakers with communication disorders. To better understand the speech profile of Mandarin speakers with communication disorders, this dissertation first examined contrastive…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Communication Disorders
Amber Briana Camp – ProQuest LLC, 2024
F0 contours convey multiple types of information, including lexical and post-lexical meanings, as well as affective and socio-indexical indicators. This dissertation investigates the interaction between lexical tone and sentence-level intonation in Thai, focusing on how sentence position influences the acoustic realization and perceptual…
Descriptors: Thai, Tone Languages, Intonation, Sentence Structure
Nicholas Balint Pandza – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Mandarin lexical tone learning has repeatedly been identified as a difficult linguistic feature for non-native speakers of tonal languages like English, even for native English learners of Mandarin at high proficiencies (e.g., Pelzl et al., 2019b). Sound perception training has been shown to help native English speakers perceive lexical tone…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Tone Languages
Luke West – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dynamic visuospatial support (DVS) is an effective tool for helping people learn linguistic tones (Hannah et al., 2017, Morett et al., 2022, Zhen et al., 2019), and learn words with these tonal categories (Baills et al., 2019, Morett et al., 2015). Progress in the field of embodied cognition and learning has led to recent emphasis on the pitch…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation, Phonology
Johnson, Sarah E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Vowel nasalization usually occurs through a two-step process whereby a vowel is nasalized via coarticulation with a nearby nasal segment; when the language later drops the nasal segment, a nasal vowel remains. Spontaneous vowel nasalization is a rare, peculiar form of nasalization that emerges in contexts that lack an historical etymological nasal…
Descriptors: Thai, Intonation, Acoustics, Vowels
Alif Silpachai – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation presents three studies that examined issues related to the production and the perception of pitch in a tone language. The first study examined linguistic contexts that may modulate consonant-induced pitch perturbations (CF0) in a tone language. Previous studies have produced mixed findings regarding the role of linguistic…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Intonation, Vowels, Speech Communication
Kao, Sophia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The relationship between typological asymmetries and acquisition of phonological patterns has been a controversial topic in the field of phonology. This dissertation approaches the issue by focusing on the source of typological asymmetries involving tone patterns, and the role that typological commonness plays in the learning of patterns that are…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Learning Processes, Intonation
Rarrick, Samantha Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While tonal systems have typically been classified as "pitch accent" or "true tonal", there is growing evidence that systems instead have a variety of features which vary across languages, rather than falling into discrete categories. These category labels have been used widely in literature about the languages of New Guinea,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Intonation
von Wertz, Sloane Celeste – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Languages generally use musical pitch variation of the voice as part of their sound systems (Maddieson, 2011)--pitch variations that can be somewhat reminiscent of music. Music ability and/or training may influence language processing (e.g., Bidelman et al., 2011; Delogue et al., 2010). In particular, studies have concluded that there may be a…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Tone Languages, Native Speakers
Andrea A. Takahesu Tabori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I investigated how cognitive resources as well as formal, and informal language experience impact language learning in two studies. In the first study (Chapter 2), I examined the learning of Spanish grammatical gender by Chinese international students who were studying abroad in the US. The goal of that study was to uncover…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Yi, Hao – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigates the lexical f[subscript 0] control in Mandarin within the framework of Articulatory Phonology (AP) in two experiments: an imitation study (Experiment 1) and an Electromagnetic Articulography production study (Experiment 2). Empirical results are accounted for by making reference to a gestural model of f[subscript o]…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, Tone Languages, Language Patterns
Mar, Li-Ya – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation investigates the occurrence of an intermediate stage, termed a covert contrast, in the acquisition of Mandarin Tone 2 (T2) and Tone 3 (T3) by adult speakers of American English. A covert contrast is a statistically reliable distinction produced by language learners that is not perceived by native speakers of the target language…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, Intonation, Phonemics
Kuang, Jianjing – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Phonation is used in many tonal languages, but how it should be incorporated into tonal systems is not well understood. The purpose of this dissertation thus is to examine the role of phonation in tonal contrasts, and to investigate how phonation and pitch interact in the tonal space. This dissertation presents close studies of tonal contrasts…
Descriptors: Phonology, Intonation, Tone Languages, Sino Tibetan Languages
Sui, Yanyan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Native speakers of Standard Chinese have significant difficulty judging the prominence of words with tones in a consistent way. How then can metrical structure in the language be diagnosed? This study approaches the question by investigating how metrical structure interacts with other aspects of phonology, especially tone; what foot type is used…
Descriptors: Chinese, Suprasegmentals, Phonology, Phonetics
Matsukawa, Kosuke – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Chicahuaxtla Triqui (Otomanguean, Mexico) is one of the rare tone languages with five contrastive level tones and its underlying tone system is even more complicated than its surface five-level tone system. The complexity of its underlying tone system has developed through the historical tone shifts from Proto-Triqui. The surface tone system of…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Phonology