Acoustic investigation of neutral tone in Brunei Mandarin
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This study provides an acoustic analysis of the neutral tone in Brunei Mandarin. Recordings were made of a short text by 20 Bruneian (BN) and 20 Beijing Chinese (CN) speakers. F0 contours and duration of three categories of disyllabic words for the BN and CN data were compared. It was found that the BN data tends to have a neutral tone on grammatical morphemes such as le (perfective) and de (possessive) but not on the second syllable of other words that would have a neutral tone in Standard Mandarin such as yīfu (‘clothes’) or reduplicates such as māma (‘mother’). In addition, it was found that the F0 contour shows a clear distinction between BN and CN for the reduplicated kinship term māma (‘mother’), but duration is a better indicator of the presence of a neutral tone for the other categories.
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