Wang, B;
Zhang, Y;
Xu, Y;
Ding, H;
(2017)
Prosodic focus in three northern Wu dialects: Wuxi, Suzhou and Ningbo.
In: Botinis, Antonis, (ed.)
Proceedings of 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics.
(pp. pp. 117-120).
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Athens, Greece.
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Abstract
The present study investigated three northern Wu dialects: Wuxi, Suzhou, and Ningbo. It is found that, in all three dialects, focus is encoded by increasing the maximum F0 and duration of focused words, and lowering and compressing the F0 and pitch range of post-focus words. These results are consistent with previous findings about Wu dialect in Shanghai. Northern Wu dialects therefore seem to encode focus in a similar way to Beijing Mandarin, but different from many languages/dialects spoken in southern China. This finding, together with evidence from gene studies and migration history of Wu areas, provide further support for the inheritance hypothesis of PFC, according to which all languages with PFC are descendants of a common proto-language in the Middle East.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Prosodic focus in three northern Wu dialects: Wuxi, Suzhou and Ningbo |
| Event: | ExLing 2017 |
| Location: | Heraklion, Crete, Greece |
| Dates: | 19 June 2017 - 22 June 2017 |
| ISBN-13: | 9789604661626 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.exlingworkshop.com/40-exling-2017/140-e... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 Antonis Botinis and authors. This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Wu dialect, prosody, focus, post-focus-compression (PFC) |
| 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/10042903 |
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