The long and the short of Wencheng tones – acoustic and auditory description of tonologically challenging phenomena in an Oujiang Wu dialect of Chinese

Zooming-in on Oujiang Wu: tonal homogeneity and acoustic reconstruction in a small sub-group of Chinese dialects

Acoustic descriptions of citation tones are presented for speakers from seven sites in the Oujiang sub-group of the Wu dialects of east central China. The homogeneity of two tones within the Oujiang sub-group is demonstrated by quantified comparison with Shanghai tones, and it is pointed out that the normalised tonal acoustics can be interpreted historically as reconstructions of proto-Oujiang ...

Complexities of Tonal Realisation in a Right-dominant Chinese Wu Dialect – Disyllabic Tone Sandhi in a Speaker from Wencheng

An acoustically-based description is given of the isolation tones and rightdominant tone sandhi in disyllabic words of a male speaker of the Chinese Oūjiāng 甌江 Wú 吳 dialect of Wénchéng 文成 . His seven isolation tones show typical Wu complexity, comprising two mid-level, two rising, two falling-rising and one depressed level pitch shapes. Typical too is his three-way voicing contrast in syllable-...

Oujiang Wu Tones and Acoustic Reconstruction

"Defying Explanation"? - Accounting for Tones in Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone Sandhi

Auditory and acoustic descriptions and hermeneutic tonological analysis are presented for the lexical tone sandhi in two subsets of disyllabic tonal combinations in the Southern Wu dialect of Wenzhou. The effects of stress are shown to be an important factor in accounting for the tones in one of the combinations.

Acoustic Analysis of the Tones in the Shantou Dialect

DEDICATION I would like to dedicate my thesis and give thanks to my family especially my brother, who have always support and encourage me whenever it is needed. I also want to give thanks to my friends, who have helped me with the data collection in parts of this work. Without the support of my family and friends, this work would not have made possible. Many thanks, to my family and friends. v...