Duration of Disyllabic Words Produced by Russian Learners of Chinese

2021 ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Jing Yang ◽  
Bei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Disyllabic Words

The Effect of Focus on the Realization of Intensity in Chinese

2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 491-494
Author(s):  
Mao Lin Wang ◽  
Xue Jiao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Average Intensity ◽  
Intensity Analysis ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Great Focus

In this paper, the average intensity and the effect of focus on it for disyllabic words in Chinese is analyzed. It is found that, the average intensity of rhyme in the first syllable is comparatively great, while for the onset, due to intervocalic voicing, that in the second syllable is great. Focus has great effect on intensity. Analysis shows that, compared to the onset and the first syllable, the effect on the rhyme and on the second syllable is great.

Names of Large Exotic Animals and the Urheimat of Japonic

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Alexander Vovin
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southern China ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Exotic Animals ◽  
Saltwater Crocodile ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Considerable Support

Abstract This article argues that three words designating large tropical animals not endemic for Japan: kisa ‘elephant’, tora ‘tiger’, and wani ‘saltwater crocodile’ were borrowed into Japonic from Austroasiatic or Kradai languages. If so, this becomes another important piece of evidence for locating the Urheimat of the Japonic Language family in Southern China and/or Northern South-East Asia driving yet another nail into the coffin of the ‘Altaic’ theory. Since all these words are disyllabic, they also contribute to the reconstruction of the disyllabic words in Austroasiatic and Kradai. This is especially important in the case of Kradai, where in spite of the rather recent fall of the monosyllabic curtain, the idea about the ‘primordial’ nature of the monosyllabic structure is still enjoying considerable support.

scholarly journals Sensory experience ratings for over 5,000 mono- and disyllabic words

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Juhasz ◽  
Melvin J. Yap
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Sensory Experience Ratings

Proto-K(r)adai ‘hand’, ‘eye’, and ‘bird’ revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Alexander Vovin
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Relationship ◽  
Disyllabic Words

Abstract This article revisits the traditional comparisons for K(r)adai and Austronesian ‘hand’, ‘eye’, and ‘bird’. In the case of ‘hand’ it attempts to improve the comparison by offering an unorthodox solution for Proto-K(r)adai reconstruction that, in my opinion, should be *lima, virtually identical to proto-Austronesian. It also provides additional evidence for reconstructing ‘eye’ and ‘bird’ as disyllabic words in K(r)adai, showing that these two were also very close to (with minor differences) to proto-Austronesian. Although these facts alone cannot be used as ultimate proof of K(r)adai and Austronesian genetic relationship, I believe that they constitute a further step in refining the arguments in this direction.

scholarly journals BULGARIAN VERNACULAR ACCENT PECULIARITIES IN DIALECTOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL REVIVAL PERIOD

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
Maria MITSKOVA
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Phonetic Feature ◽  
Word Stress ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Field Area

The following article examines the accentual peculiarities in the Bulgarian vernacular from the second and third quarters of the 19th century as described in the dialectological publications from the same period. Bulgarian 19th-century writers go beyond the field area of recognizing and analyzing the phonetic nature of the Bulgarian dynamic accent and its effect on vowels and comment on a number of phonetic processes and phenomena, regarded as a result of the functioning of the word stress. They discuss the reduction of unstressed vowels in Eastern Bulgarian dialects, set out the Yat rule, and draw attention to the connection between Yat mutation and word stress. In their publications a number of accentual peculiarities are revealed, such as: the fixed secondary and tertiary stress in some Southwestern Bulgarian dialects, shifting the stress from the root syllable to the flexion in the definite forms of disyllabic words – a special phonetic feature in the mass of Southwestern and Rup Bulgarian dialects. In their attempts to present the diversity of the spoken language and to conceptualize it as a cultural value and a linguistic source, they present hundreds of examples which visualize the variety of local pronunciations, as well as the word-stock of the entire Bulgarian language. Their work is a valuable contribution both to the history of the Bulgarian vernacular and to the history of the Bulgarian dialectology from the 19th century.

scholarly journals Prosodically Conditioned Consonant Duration in Djambarrpuyŋu

2019 ◽  
pp. 002383091982660
Author(s):  
Kathleen Jepson ◽  
Janet Fletcher ◽  
Hywel Stoakes
Keyword(s):  
Initial Position ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Pitch Accent ◽  
Data Word ◽  
The World ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Phonological Phrase ◽  
Australian Languages ◽  
Segment Duration

Cross-linguistically, segments typically lengthen because of proximity to prosodic events such as intonational phrase or phonological phrase boundaries, a phrasal accent, or due to lexical stress. Australian Indigenous languages have been claimed to operate somewhat differently in terms of prosodically conditioned consonant lengthening and strengthening. Consonants have been found to lengthen after a vowel bearing a phrasal pitch accent. It is further claimed that this post-tonic position is a position of prosodic strength in Australian languages. In this study, we investigate the effects of proximity to a phrasal pitch accent and prosodic constituent boundaries on the duration of stop and nasal consonants in words of varying lengths in Djambarrpuyŋu, an Australian Indigenous language spoken in northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Our results suggest that the post-tonic consonant position does not condition longer consonant duration compared with other word-medial consonants, with one exception: Intervocalic post-tonic consonants in disyllabic words are significantly longer than word-medial consonants elsewhere. Therefore, it appears that polysyllabic shortening has a strong effect on segment duration in these data. Word-initial position did not condition longer consonant duration than word-medial position. Further, initial consonants in higher-level prosodic domains had shorter consonant duration compared with domain-medial word-initial consonants. By contrast, domain-final lengthening was observed in our data, with word-final nasals preceding a pause found to be significantly longer than all other consonants. Taken together, these findings for Djambarrpuyŋu suggest that, unlike other Australian languages, post-tonic lengthening is not a cue to prosodic prominence, whereas prosodic domain-initial and -final duration patterns of consonants are like those that have been observed in other languages of the world.

Non-durational acoustic correlates of word-initial consonant gemination in Kelantan Malay: The potential roles of amplitude and f0

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-60
Author(s):  
Mohd Hilmi Hamzah ◽  
John Hajek ◽  
Janet Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Acoustic Parameters ◽  
Rare Word ◽  
Acoustic Correlates ◽  
Closure Duration ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Consonant Gemination ◽  
Manner Of Articulation ◽  
Magnitude Difference

This study reports on non-durational acoustic correlates of typologically rare word-initial consonant gemination in Kelantan Malay (KM) by focusing on two acoustic parameters – amplitude and f0. Given the unusual characteristics of the word-initial consonant contrast and its potential maintenance in domain-initial environments, this study sets to examine the extent to which amplitude and f0 can potentially characterise such a contrast in KM in addition to the cross-linguistically established acoustic correlate of closure duration. The production data involved elicited materials from sixteen KM native speakers. RMS and f0 values were measured at the start of the vowel following stops and sonorants produced in isolation (i.e. utterance-initial position) and in a carrier sentence (i.e. utterance-medial position). Results indicate that the consonant contrast is reflected in systematic differences in (i) vowel onset amplitude and f0 following the target consonant and (ii) the ratios of amplitude and f0 across two syllables of disyllabic words. There are also effects of utterance position, manner of articulation and voicing type on the magnitude of contrast between singletons and geminates with utterance-initial voiceless stops generally showing the greatest magnitude difference. The conclusion is drawn that the KM word-initial singleton/geminate consonant contrast can be associated with a set of acoustic parameters alongside closure duration.

Perceptual recovery of phonetic features in blanked segments of disyllabic words

2011 ◽  
Vol 130 (4) ◽  
pp. 2375-2375
Author(s):  
Pierre L. Divenyi ◽  
Adam C. Lammert
Keyword(s):  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Phonetic Features

Identification of Mandarin coarticulated tones by inexperienced and experienced English learners of Mandarin

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunjuan He ◽  
Ratree Wayland
Keyword(s):  
English Learners ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Lexical Tones ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Tonal Perception ◽  
Mandarin Tones ◽  
Tonal Context ◽  
Syllable Position

AbstractTwo groups of native English speakers, relatively inexperienced (N = 14) with 3 months of Mandarin study and relatively more experienced (N = 14) with 12 months of study, were asked to identify coarticulated Mandarin lexical tones in disyllabic words. The results show that 1) the experienced learners were better at identifying Mandarin tones than the inexperienced learners, 2) Tones in coarticulation were more difficult to identify than tones in isolation, 3) tonal context and syllable position affected tonal perception, and 4) experienced learners committed fewer tonal direction errors than inexperienced learners. However, experienced learners still made a considerable amount of tonal height errors.

An Acoustic Study on Focus in Chinese: The Variation of Intensity

2013 ◽  
Vol 710 ◽  
pp. 608-612
Author(s):  
Mao Lin Wang ◽  
Xue Jiao Huang ◽  
Yi Si Liu ◽  
Jia Yun Li ◽  
Zi Yu Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Average Intensity ◽  
Acoustic Study ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Great Focus

In this paper, the average intensity and the effect of focus on it for disyllabic words in Chinese is analyzed. It is found that, under focused condition, the average intensity of rhyme in the first syllable is comparatively great, while for the onset, due to intervocalic voicing, that in the second syllable is great. Focus has great effect on intensity. Under focused condition, the overall intensity will increase. The results from this study will be applicable in speech engineering.

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