Yami texts

YAMI: Incremental Mining of Interesting Association Patterns

Acoustic cues to prosodic boundaries in Yami: A first look

It is well known that in many Indo-European languages speakers manipulate acoustic cues to encode different prosodic phrase boundaries. However, no such attempt has been made to investigate these effects in Austronesian languages. Therefore, this paper reports on preliminary research on the prosodic structure of Yami, an endangered Austronesian language spoken on Orchid Island, Taiwan. Two acou...

Iconicity and Tense, Aspect, and Mood Morphology in Yami

This study aims to investigate the relationships between the forms and functions of the Tense-Aspect-Modality categories. Bybee’s hypothesis (1985) was tested against Yami data to discover how the categories of tense, aspect, and mood interact to support the iconicity hypothesis. The morphemic order and the degree of fusion are not arbitrary, in that the categories that most affect the meanings...

A Semantic Study on Yami Ontology in Traditional Songs

The purpose of this study was to provide an example of how to build a Yami ontology from traditional songs by employing Protégé, an open-source tool for editing and managing ontologies developed by Stanford University. Following Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier and Turner, 1998), we found that Yami people use the conceptual metaphor of “fishing” in traditional songs when praising the host...

What does the question sound like: Exploring wh- and yes/no interrogativeprosody in Yami

This paper explores two types of interrogative prosody in Yami, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. (Semi-) spontaneous data collected through the Map Task technique [1] were used and acoustic parameters such as pitch accent shapes, boundary tones, pitch range, and speech rate were examined. The results show that all parameters were used to differentiate interrogative prosody in Yami. Th...