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Author : John Marshall Howie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521207324
Originally published in 1976, this book applies the techniques of acoustic phonetics to Mandarin Chinese.
Author : John Marshall Howie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : OCLC:34186938
Author : Aditi Lahiri,Sandra Kotzor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110422658
In this book, some of today’s leading neurolinguists and psycholinguists provide insight into the nature of phonological processing using behavioural measures, computational modeling, EEG and fMRI. The essays cover a range of topics including categorization, acoustic variability and invariance, underspecification, talker-specificity and machine learning, focusing on the acoustics, perception, acquisition and neural representation of speech.
Author : William S-Y Wang,Chaofen Sun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190266844
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
Author : Huei‐Mei Liu,Feng‐Ming Tsao,Ping Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789811576065
This book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese. It highlights perception and production of speech in healthy and clinical populations and in children and adults. This book provides diverse perspectives and reviews of cutting-edge research in past decades on how Chinese speech is processed and learned. Along with each chapter, future research directions have been discussed. With these unique features and the broad coverage of topics, this book appeals to not only scholars and students who study speech perception in preverbal infants and in children and adults learning Chinese, but also to teachers with interests in pedagogical applications in teaching Chinese as Second Language.
Author : Chiu-yu Tseng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UVA:X002049244
Author : P S-P Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814632225
For the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the study of artificial intelligence and rule-based expert systems. Their research and development have progressed very rapidly to a point where many theorems and principles can be applied to solve realistic problems. This volume, containing highly selected papers from the International Conference on Chinese and Oriental Languages Computing (1987) is perhaps the first one ever to systematically present papers and articles incorporating such intelligence technologies into Chinese language computing. The 12 articles are classified into 3 sections, namely, (1) knowledge–based systems, (2) speech processing and recognition, and (3) character recognition and knowledge pattern representation. Contents:Generating Chinese Responses in a Medical Question-Answering System (P Y Li & M Evens)Prolog–Based Chinese Expert Systems (L S Hsu)Word–Based Chinese Language Understanding System (T S Yao)Knowledge–Based Chinese Letter Writer (T T Koh)Recognition of Lexical Tones for Isolated Syllables and Disyllables in Mandarin Chinese (W J Yang et al.)A Logical Approach to Movement Transformations in Mandarin Chinese (H H Chen et al.)Efficient Speech Recognition Technique for the Finals of Mandarin Syllables (C–H Hwang et al.)Fast Chinese Characters Accessing Technique Using Mandarin Phonetic Transcriptions (C C Chang & H C Wu)System for On–Line Recognition of Chinese Characters (K–J Chen et al.)Stroke Relation Coding — A New Approach to the Recognition of Multi–Font Printed Chinese Characters (P-N Chen et al.) Knowledge Pattern Representation of Chinese Characters (P S-P Wang)Kanji Recognition Method which Detects Writing Errors (T Morishita et al.) Readership: Computer scientists.
Author : Noor Azam Haji-Othman,James McLellan,David Deterding
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789811008535
This book provides an overview of the linguistic situation in Brunei, including a historical overview and a synopsis of the current education system. It investigates pronunciation, particularly the intelligibility of Brunei English and the vowels of Brunei Mandarin, and it also describes the acquisition of Malay grammar, Malay politeness strategies, the use of language online, language in the courts, a comparison of Malay and English newspapers, the language of shop signs, the status of Dusun, and lastly, English literature in Brunei.
Author : Cécile Fougeron,Barbara Kuehnert,Mariapaola Imperio,Nathalie Vallee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110224917
The present volume contains a selection of the papers and commentaries which were originally presented at the Tenth Conference of Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon10) held in Paris from June 29 to July 1, 2006. The theme of the volume is Variation, Phonetic Detail and Phonological Representation. It brings together specialists of different fields of speech research with the goal to discuss the relevance of patterns of variation and phonetic details on phonological representations and theories. The topic is addressed from the angles of speech production, perception, acquisition, speech disorders, and language universals. The contributions are grouped thematically in five sections, each of which is commented by invited discussants. Section I contains the contributions to the special '10th anniversary session' of the conference which represent in a prototypical way some of the different research questions that have been at the core of important debates over the last 20 years in the laboratory phonology community. Issues of phonological universals and language typology are addressed in section II. In section III, the notions of variation and phonetic detail are examined with regard to how they are acquired and dealt with in the formation of phonological representation in emerging systems. Section IV focuses on recent work at the crossroad between normal and disordered speech.
Author : Carlos Gussenhoven,Tomas Riad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110207576
This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and pitch target alignment.
Author : Christopher Carignan,Georgia Zellou,Eleanor Chodroff,Joseph V. Casillas
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832521021
Author : Xiao-nan Susan Shen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520097505
Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to interrogative; therefore, two baselines and two intonation layers must be reckoned with. Sentence intonation affects the tonal values and the tonal shapes of intrinsic lexical tones, though not beyond recognition. Tonal changes prove to be closely related to sentence intonation, which is superimposed simultaneously onto the utterance as a whole. The author's findings support the position of the movability of the intonation baseline and rectify some widely spread traditional claims concerning Mandarin Chinese prosody.
Author : Jialing Wang,Norval Smith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110822014
Author : Leher Singh,Denis Burnham,Jessica Hay,Liquan Liu,Karen Mattock
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889630615
In psycholinguistic research there has traditionally been a strong emphasis on understanding how particular language types of are processed and learned . In particular, Romance and Germanic languages (e.g. English, French, German) have, until recently, received more attention than other types, such as Chinese languages. This has led to selective emphasis on the phonological building blocks of European languages, consonants and vowels, to the exclusion of lexical tones which, like consonants and vowels, determine lexical meaning, but unlike consonants and vowels are based on pitch variations. Lexical tone is pervasive; it is used in at least half of the world’ languages (Maddieson, 2013), e.g., most Asian and some African, Central American, and European languages. This Research Topic brings together a collection of recent empirical research on the processing and representation of lexical tones across the lifespan with an emphasis on advancing knowledge on how tone systems are acquired. The articles focus on various aspects of tone: early perception of tones, influences of tone on word learning, the acquisition of new tone systems, and production of tones. One set of articles report on tone perception at the earliest stage of development, in infants learning either tone or non-tone languages. Tsao and Chen et al. demonstrate that infants’ sensitivity to Mandarin lexical tones, as well as pitch, improves over the first year of life in native and non-native learners in contrast to traditional accounts of perceptual narrowing for consonants and vowels. Götz et al. report a different pattern of perception for Cantonese tones and further demonstrate influences of methodological approaches on infants’ tone sensitivity. Fan et al. demonstrate that sensitivity to less well-studied properties of tone languages, such as neutral tone, may develop after the first year of life. Cheng and Lee ask a similar question in an electrophysiological study and report effects of stimulus salience on infants’ neural response to native tones. In a complementary set of studies focused on tone sensitivity in word learning, Burnham et al. demonstrate that infants bind tones to newly-learned words if they are learning a tone language, either monolingually or bilingually; although it was also found that object-word binding was influenced by the properties of individual tones. Liu and Kager chart a developmental trajectory over the second year of life in which infants narrow in their interpretation of non-native tones. Choi et al. investigate how learning a tone language can influence uptake of other suprasegmental properties of language, such as stress, and demonstrate that native tone sensitivity in children can facilitate stress sensitivity when learning a stress-based language. Finally, two studies focus on sensitivity to pitch in a sub-class tone languages: pitch accent languages. In a study on Japanese children’s abilities to recognise words they know, Ota et al. demonstrate a limited sensitivity to native pitch contrasts in toddlers. In contrast, Ramachers et al. demonstrate comparatively strong sensitivity to pitch in native and non-native speakers of a different pitch accent system (Limburghian) when learning new words. Several studies focus on learning new tone systems. In a training study with school-aged children, Kasisopa et al. demonstrate that tone language experience increases children’s abilities to learn new tone contrasts. Poltrock et al. demonstrate similar advantages of tone experience in learning new tone systems in adults. And in an elecrophysiological study, Liu et al. demonstrate order effects in adults’ neural responses to new tones, discussing implications for learning tone languages as an adult. Finally, Hannah et al. demonstrate that extralinguistic cues, such as facial expression, can support adults’ learning of new tone systems. In three studies investigating tone production, Rattansone et al. report the results of a study demonstrating kindergartners’ asynchronous mastery of tones – delayed acquisition of tone sandhi forms relative to base forms. In a study interrogating a corpus of adult tone production, Han et al. demonstrate that mothers produce tones in a distinct manner when speaking to infants; tone differences are emphasised more when speaking to infants than to adults. Combining perception and production of tones, Wong et al. report asynchronous development of tone perception and tone production in children. The Research Topic also includes a series of Opinion pieces and Commentaries addressing the broader relevance of tone and pitch to the study of language acquisition. Curtin and Werker discuss ways in which tone can be integrated into their model of infant language development (PRIMIR). Best discusses the phonological status of lexical tones and considers how recent empirical research on tone perception bears on this question. Kager focuses on how language learners distinguish lexical tones from other sources of pitch variation (e.g., affective and pragmatic) that also inform language comprehension. Finally, Antoniou and Chin unite evidence of tone sensitivity from children and adults and discuss how these areas of research can be mutually informative. Psycholinguistic studies of lexical tone acquisition have burgeoned over the past 13 years. This collection of empirical studies and opinion pieces provides a state-of-the-art panoply of the psycholinguistic study of lexical tones, and demonstrate its coming of age. The articles in this Research Topic will help address the hitherto Eurocentric non-tone language research emphasis, and will contribute to an expanding narrative of speech perception, speech production, and language acquisition that includes all of the world’s languages. Importantly, these studies underline the scientific promise of drawing from tone languages in psycholinguistic research; the research questions raised by lexical tone are unique and distinct from those typically applied to more widely studied languages and populations. The comprehensive study of language acquisition can only benefit from this expanded focus.
Author : Carlos Gussenhoven,Professor of General and Experimental Phonology Carlos Gussenhoven,Aoju Chen,Professor of Language Development in Relation to Socialisation and Identity Aoju Chen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198832232
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.
