4 papers
Form and meaning co-determine the realization of tone in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech: the case of T2-T3 and T3-T3 tone sandhi
Yuxin Lu, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen
In Standard Chinese, Tone 3 (the dipping tone) becomes Tone 2 (rising tone) when followed by another Tone 3. Previous studies have noted that this sandhi process may be incomplete,…
Analyzing Finnish Inflectional Classes through Discriminative Lexicon and Deep Learning Models
Alexandre Nikolaev, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen
Descriptions of complex nominal or verbal systems make use of inflectional classes. Inflectional classes bring together nouns which have similar stem changes and use similar expone…
Word-specific tonal realizations in Mandarin
Yu-Ying Chuang, Melanie J. Bell, Yu-Hsiang Tseng +1
The pitch contours of Mandarin two-character words are generally understood as being shaped by the underlying tones of the constituent single-character words, in interaction with a…
The realization of tones in spontaneous spoken Taiwan Mandarin: a corpus-based survey and theory-driven computational modeling
Yuxin Lu, Yu-Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen
A growing body of literature has demonstrated that semantics can co-determine fine phonetic detail. However, the complex interplay between phonetic realization and semantics remain…