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Pre-low raising in Japanese pitch accent

Lee, A; Prom-on, S; Xu, Y; (2017) Pre-low raising in Japanese pitch accent. Phonetica , 74 (4) pp. 231-246. 10.1159/000452312. Green open access

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Abstract

Japanese has been observed to have two versions of the H tone, the higher of which is associated with an accented mora. However, the distinction of these two versions only surfaces in context but not in isolation, leading to a long-standing debate over whether there is one H tone or two. This article reports evidence that the higher version may result from a pre-low raising mechanism rather than being inherently higher. The evidence is based on an analysis of F0 of words that varied in length, accent condition and syllable structure, produced by native speakers of Japanese at two speech rates. The data indicate a clear separation between effects that are due to mora-level preplanning and those that are mechanical. These results are discussed in terms of mechanisms of laryngeal control during tone production, and highlight the importance of articulation as a link between phonology and surface acoustics.

Type: Article
Title: Pre-low raising in Japanese pitch accent
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1159/000452312
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000452312
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1508065
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