TY - JOUR
T1 - Statistical modelling of phonetic and phonologised perturbation effects in tonal and non-tonal languages
AU - Chen, Si
AU - Zhang, Caicai
AU - McCollum, Adam G.
AU - Wayland, Ratree
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Caroline Wiltshire, Andrea Pham, Cynthia Chennault, and participants at the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics for their comments on an earlier version of the work. We are also indebted to language consultants for their help in this study. Comments and suggestions about statistical modelling and R code from Toby Cheng, Nikolay Bliznyuk and Michael J. Daniels from the Department of Statistics are gratefully acknowledged. We are also indebted to two anonymous reviewers for providing insightful comments and suggestions. This work was supported by Faculty of Humanities at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University [grant number 1-ZVHJ], and partly supported by a grant to the second author from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 11504400).
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - This study statistically models perturbation effects of consonants on f0 values of the following vowel in order to quantify the differences between phonetic perturbation effects (i.e., phonetic variation) and phonologised perturbation effects (i.e., tone distinctions). We investigated perturbation effects in a non-tonal language, Japanese and a tonal language, Chongming Chinese. Traditional methods of modelling cannot distinguish phonetic and phonologised effects on surface f0 contours, as variation caused by both effects reached statistical significance. We therefore statistically modelled and tested the differences in underlying pitch targets, which successfully distinguished between phonetic and phonologised effects, and is robust to data variability. The methods used in this study can be further applied to examine perturbation effects cross-linguistically and shed light on the development of tones and stages of phonologisation more broadly.
AB - This study statistically models perturbation effects of consonants on f0 values of the following vowel in order to quantify the differences between phonetic perturbation effects (i.e., phonetic variation) and phonologised perturbation effects (i.e., tone distinctions). We investigated perturbation effects in a non-tonal language, Japanese and a tonal language, Chongming Chinese. Traditional methods of modelling cannot distinguish phonetic and phonologised effects on surface f0 contours, as variation caused by both effects reached statistical significance. We therefore statistically modelled and tested the differences in underlying pitch targets, which successfully distinguished between phonetic and phonologised effects, and is robust to data variability. The methods used in this study can be further applied to examine perturbation effects cross-linguistically and shed light on the development of tones and stages of phonologisation more broadly.
KW - Functional data analysis
KW - Growth curve analysis
KW - Perturbation
KW - Phonologisation
KW - Underlying pitch targets
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U2 - 10.1016/j.specom.2017.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.specom.2017.01.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009726038
SN - 0167-6393
VL - 88
SP - 17
EP - 38
JO - Speech Communication
JF - Speech Communication
ER -