Same Tone, Different Category: Linguistic-Tonetic Variation in the Areal Tone Acoustics of Chuqu Wu

Steed, William; Rose, Philip

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Same Tone, Different Category: Linguistic-Tonetic Variation in the Areal Tone Acoustics of Chuqu Wu

Date

2009

Authors

Steed, William

Rose, Philip

Publisher

International Speech Communication Association

Abstract

Acoustic and auditory data are presented for the citation tones of single speakers from nine sites (eight hitherto undescribed in English) from the little-studied Chuqu subgroup of Wu in East Central China: Lìshuǐ, Lóngquán Qìngyuán, Lóngyóu, Jìn