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Tone 4 and Tone 3 discrimination in Modern Standard Chinese

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Productions of tone 4 & tone 3 (mai/mai 'sell'/'buy') in comparable sentences suggests that although the two tones are realized in different ways by different speakers in different speech acts, some features are constant. Tone 3 is connected with a low pitch level throughout the second half of the vowel & tone 4 with a gradual fall over the main part of the vocalic segment. These observations were tested in a series of manipulations of pitch movements over mai from tone 4 to tone 3 in the sentence Song Yan mai niurou 'Song Yan sells beef'. The manipulated sentences were presented in a test, in which listeners (N = 18 native speakers) were asked if they heard mai or mai. The result confirmed the observed constant features & indicated in addition that it was important for both tones to have a clear reference. The identification of tone 4 was favored by an introductory rising or level part, & for tone 3 an introductory fall seemed to be important. Creaky voice is a concomitant but not a necessary feature of tone 3.

Publiceringsår

1986

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

93-281

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Language and Speech

Volym

29

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Kingston Press Ltd

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1756-6053