Tone and accent share a key phonetic property, namely pitch prominence. It is therefore not surprising that the tonal and accentual systems overlap, and that languages may develop in either direction along this tone-accent continuum. In this paper I argue that at least one dialect of Chinese, notably the New Chongming dialect of the northern Wu group, has evolved from a prototypically tonal language to an unmistakably accentual system according to such diagnostics as: culminativity, syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic contrast, weight-sensitive prominence, and avoidance of tonic clash (analogue of stress clash).Ton et accent ont en commun une propriété phonétique fondamentale, la proéminence mélodique. On ne s'étonnera donc pas que les systèmes to...
This paper highlights the findings in the field of tonal phonology which, along with some uncontrove...
Native speakers of Standard Chinese have significant difficulty judging the prominence of words with...
This paper highlights the findings in the field of tonal phonology which, along with some uncontrove...
Tone and accent share a key phonetic property, namely pitch prominence. It is therefore not surprisi...
Earlier studies on Chinese have recognized that there are prominent positions, and there are interac...
Earlier studies on Chinese have recognized that there are prominent positions, and there are interac...
According to the domain-based classification of tone systems (Ding 2009), the syllable-tone system t...
The most prominent prosodic feature of tonal languages such as Standard Chinese is their u...
Lexical tone has been investigated from a diverse variety of perspectives, with significant disagree...
Chinese tones are associated with a syllable to convey meaning, English pitch accents are prominence...
The origin of tone, also known as tonogenesis, has long been a topic of great interest in language e...
To date, the majority of attention given to sound change in lexical tone has focused on how an atona...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on...
The current paper refers to the particular phonetic and phonological substance of the Chinese langua...
Recent advances in the literature have focused on sketching phonosemantic mappings of imitative or i...
This paper highlights the findings in the field of tonal phonology which, along with some uncontrove...
Native speakers of Standard Chinese have significant difficulty judging the prominence of words with...
This paper highlights the findings in the field of tonal phonology which, along with some uncontrove...
Tone and accent share a key phonetic property, namely pitch prominence. It is therefore not surprisi...
Earlier studies on Chinese have recognized that there are prominent positions, and there are interac...
Earlier studies on Chinese have recognized that there are prominent positions, and there are interac...
According to the domain-based classification of tone systems (Ding 2009), the syllable-tone system t...
The most prominent prosodic feature of tonal languages such as Standard Chinese is their u...
Lexical tone has been investigated from a diverse variety of perspectives, with significant disagree...
Chinese tones are associated with a syllable to convey meaning, English pitch accents are prominence...
The origin of tone, also known as tonogenesis, has long been a topic of great interest in language e...
To date, the majority of attention given to sound change in lexical tone has focused on how an atona...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on...
The current paper refers to the particular phonetic and phonological substance of the Chinese langua...
Recent advances in the literature have focused on sketching phonosemantic mappings of imitative or i...
This paper highlights the findings in the field of tonal phonology which, along with some uncontrove...
Native speakers of Standard Chinese have significant difficulty judging the prominence of words with...
This paper highlights the findings in the field of tonal phonology which, along with some uncontrove...