- Title Information
- Title
- Tone Sandhi in Ganyu Mandarin
- Type of Resource
- text
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Gu, Yiming
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Sanker, Chelsea
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Advisor
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Cohen Priva, Uriel
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Morgan, James
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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- Role Term:
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- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- Extent
- iii, 61 p.
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- born digital
- Note:
thesis
- Thesis (A. M.)--Brown University, 2018
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- Tone sandhi in Ganyu, a Mandarin dialect, is relatively complicated. There were only a few descriptive works in existing literature. By using prosodic structure, the thesis provides a uniform explanation to non-focused pitched syllable tone sandhi in Ganyu from the perspective of Optimality Theory. In the analysis, a syllable contains three pitch targets underlyingly, while in the output only two targets are allowed. Phonological phrase and foot are constructed via the ranking of phonosyntactic constraints. Pitch-sensitive constraints which are responsible for each and every sandhi phenomenon are motivated by tonal saliency, metrical integrity, target realizability, and pitch faithfulness. In addition, the thesis proposes a new concept: dependent pitch target. Phonologically-relevant creaky or falsetto sounds, as found in Ganyu and neighboring dialects, are dependent pitch targets which must follow a low or high target, and they are very short in duration. The analysis covers disyllabic and trisyllabic feet both at the final position of a phonological phrase and at the non-final position. The analysis can be extended to cases which involve focus-stressed syllables and pitch-less syllables in future investigations.
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Chinese language--Phonology
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Optimality theory (Linguistics)
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Tone (Phonetics)
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Mandarin dialects--Phonology
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Chinese language--Prosodic analysis
- Language
- Language Term (ISO639-2B)
- English
- Record Information
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- RPB
- Record Creation Date
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- 20180615
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/wb7a-wb82
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