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Direct linkLiu, Siyun; Samuel, Arthur G. – Language and Speech, 2004
In tone languages, the identity of a word depends on its tone pattern as well as its phonetic structure. The primary cue to tone identity is the fundamental frequency (F0) contour. Two experiments explore how listeners perceive Mandarin monosyllables in which all or part of the F0 information has been neutralized. In Experiment 1, supposedly…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonetics, Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese
Download full textLyovin, Anatole – 1968
The use of computers makes possible analysis of the vast amount of data available in recent dialect dictionaries and surveys and in the ancient Chinese rhyme books, such as "Guang yun" and "Ji yun." Comparison of dialects can enable a historical study of Chinese, a major language group outside the Indo-European area, to offer…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics
