Phonetic Realizations of Metrical Structure in Tone Languages: Evidence From Chinese Dialects.

ABSTRACT: In tone languages, some case studies showed that the word-level tonal representation was closely related to the underlying metrical pattern. Based on different tonal patterns in prosodic units, the metrical structures could generally be divided into the left- and right-dominant types in Chinese dialects. Yet the cross-dialectal phonetic realizations (e.g., duration and pitch) between or within these two metrical structures were still unrevealed. The current study investigated the duration and pitch realizations of disyllabic prosodic words in Changsha and Chengdu dialects (the left-dominant structure), and in Fuzhou and Xiamen dialects (the right-dominant structure). Results showed that not all the duration patterns across four Chinese dialects were sensitive to different metrical structur

SUBMITTER: Guo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9326321 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature