Exploring Boundary Tones in Taiwan Southern Min
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چکیده
This study explores boundary pitch movements in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) by investigating pitch variations of final particles. Based on annotation research on the pitch targets of final particles in a 117-minute spontaneous speech corpus, it is proposed that instead of viewing such pitch variations as lexical tones, these variations should be referred to as three types boundary pitch movements, namely, the L% tone, the % tone, and the relatively infrequent H% tone. A Preliminary analysis on the proposed tones reveals that pitchtarget labeling on final particles is able to capture differences in pragmatic-discourse meanings. The findings may serve as a starting point to further development of prosodic description of TSM.
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