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Sociotonetics using connected speech

A study of Sui tone variation in free-speech style

 | Dartmouth College
Published online: 29 September 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.2.1.02sta
Abstract
This is the first variationist sociotonetic study to use free-speech data for exploring tone. Due to the challenges of analyzing tone in free-speech data, prior work on sociotonetics has been limited to relatively formal speech styles: word lists, sentence frames, and phrase lists. But connected speech styles, including free speech and reading passages, are important for segmental sociophonetics and most other linguistic variables. Will free-speech data always be out of reach for sociotonetics? Can tone variation in connected speech data be normalized and meaningfully analyzed for sociolinguistic research questions? Using field data from the Sui language of China, this paper develops a practical approach for analyzing tone variation in connected speech data, and then applies it to a specific research question about dialect contact in exogamous Sui villages. Results show that some types of intra- and inter-speaker tone variation in connected speech can be effectively analyzed, although other types of tone variables are neutralized in this speech style.
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本文是首篇利用自然言语来探讨声调的变异派社会语音学论。由于分析自然言语技巧上的限制以往文献限于单字表，单字表等正式言语。然而，连续式的言语，例如自然言语及朗读，是音段社会语音学内非常重要的领域。社会音调学永远无法被用来研究连续言语数据吗？连续言语数据能被标准化及分析吗？这篇论文利用田野调查发展出一个分析声调变异的实用方法，并且将其运用于研究外婚制水语族的方言接触。研究发现连续言语的声调变化能被分析，但某些类型的声调变数仍被中和。
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Normalization for variationist purposes
    • 1.2Vowel formant normalization
    • 1.3Tone normalization
    • 1.4Background on the Sui field data study
      • 1.4.1Sui tones
      • 1.4.2The sociolinguistic question for the Sui field data study
  • 2.Normalization methods
    • 2.1Duration
    • 2.2Mean pitch and pitch range
    • 2.3Challenges of measuring tone in connected speech
    • 2.4Testing moving-window normalization methods
    • 2.5Examining the normalization method
  • 3.Results of the Sui field data study
    • 3.1Group analysis
    • 3.2Conversation
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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