[情報] Tsing Hua Workshop on Prosodic and Metrical Phonology 20
有一場主題是咧講臺語个「輕聲」：To spread or not to spread: Neutral tone
syllables in Taiwanese Southern Min
有興趣个儂，準講時間有拄好，會當去聽看覓仔，罔參考。
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Tsing Hua Workshop on Prosodic and Metrical Phonology 2020
A workshop series in celebration of the 35th years of linguistics at Tsing Hua
Temporospatial: June 24 (Wed), 2020; HSS Building, B305, National Tsing Hua
University
ALL ARE WELCOME!
2:00 p.m. ~ 2:40 p.m.
Just how metrical is the autosegmental-metrical model?
Carlos Gussenhoven (Raboud Univeristy Nijmegen/National Chiao Tung University)
2:40 ~ 3:30
On the existence of word stress in Chinese
Feng-fan Hsieh (National Tsing Hua University)
3:30 ~ 3:50 Break
3:50 ~ 4:30
To spread or not to spread: Neutral tone syllables in Taiwanese Southern Min
Cheng-yen Roger Liu (National Tsing Hua University)
4:30 ~ 5:10
What is a boundary tone?
Kristine Yu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst/National Chiao Tung
University)
Abstracts:
Just how metrical is the autosegmental-metrical model? (Carlos Gussenhoven)
Metrical representations of sentences, whether grids, trees, or s-w annotations
on the constituents in the prosodic hierarchy, have been claimed to account
for (a) Iambic Reversal in English (cf fífteen mén , but fiftéen) and (b)
pitch accent locations on words more generally. I argue that the descriptive
goal in (a) has not been achieved, while that in (b) has never been tried. Both
problems concern the distribution of pitch accents. These can be accounted for
with the help of an abstract location marker for the association of tone, as
advocated by Goldsmith (1977). Parsimonious descriptions are shown to account
for a dozen generalizations governing pitch accent locations in Nubi, Persian
and English. Of these, only English Iambic Reversal has a phonological
description, the others being informed by the morphology, the syntax, or focus.
In conclusion, the Autosegmental-Metrical model does not distinguish itself
from the general model of autosegmental phonology.
On the existence of word stress in Chinese (Feng-fan Hsieh)
In this talk, I argue that there exists word stress in Mandarin, even though it
is well-established that Chinese stress is not perceptually salient, nor is it
instrumentally confirmed at all. The direct evidence comes from the existence
of word-level footing in (disyllabic) coordinative compounds (e.g., dà-xiǎo
‘big-small: size’), which is in many ways reminiscent of binominals in
English (e.g., bread and butter, trick or treat, etc.), whereby the word order
is not reversable (e.g. ??butter and bread; also, ??xiǎo-dà ‘small-big’).
More precisely, from a corpus of 8,267 coordinative compounds, it is found that
the distributions of the following phonetic properties are significantly
biased towards the initial syllable of coordinative compounds, namely that (a)
onset aspiration, (b) vowel lowness, (c) postnuclear glides, (d) nasal codas,
and (e) Tone 1 (high level tone: 55), suggesting that the disyllabic
coordinative compounds do form a metrical constituent, or, a trochaic foot
exhibiting a strong-weak stress contour. In addition, the so-called neutral
tone syllables constitute yet another evidence from the existence of foot in
Mandarin Chinese. Precisely, vowel reduction, lenition and so on result from
the lexically-specified extrametricality on neutral tone syllables. In
conclusion, stress is overtly realized in Mandarin Chinese, albeit in a meager
manner.
To spread or not to spread: Neutral tone syllables in Taiwanese Southern Min (
Cheng-yen Roger Liu)
It has long been noted in the literature that there are two broad types of
neutral tone in Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM). Some neutral tone syllables bear
a (default) low tone (dubbed “non-tone spreading” neutral tone, NTS), whereas
the overall surface tone specification is contextually dependent in still
others (dubbed “tone-spreading” neutral tone, TS). Neutral tone syllables are
in general found in function words (postverbal particles, sentence final
particles, etc.) and, more importantly, both types of neutral tone, i.e. TS and
NTS, are found in particles with similar/identical grammatical functions,
indicating that TS and NTS may not be grammatically modulated. One of our major
findings is that, details aside, the choice between NTS and TS is
predominantly determined by the manner of interlude consonants. Precisely,
obstruent consonants “interrupt” TS, while NTS is not compatible with a
sonorant interlude. Consequently, the distinction between TS and NTS may be
reduced to a “blocking effect” of interlude consonants, which is reminiscent
of depressor consonants in Southern Bantu languages or Wu Chinese. Nevertheless
, it is equally remarkable that neutral tone syllables may occur when some
specific grammatical features are being realized in TSM. We argue that
grammatical tones of this sort are better analyzed as a floating low tone,
leading to NTS. Finally, possible consequences for a proper treatment of the
Southern Min tone sandhi systems will also be discussed.
What is a boundary tone? (Kristine Yu)
Prosodic boundary tones exhibit the phonological property of being conditioned
on the appearance of prosodic constituent edges and the phonetic behavior of
being aligned to the edge of a prosodic constituent. They thus must be
temporally located at constituent edges in the phonological grammar. Why does
this happen? Many phonological analyses have effectively stipulated this by
marking boundary tones with a diacritic, e.g., H%. We show a way to have the
edge behavior of boundary tones fall out of where they come into the grammar,
following Pierrehumbert and Beckman (1988)'s idea that boundary tones are
associated to higher-level prosodic nodes. What is a boundary tone? A boundary
tone is a tone that enters the derivation of a prosodic tree when a prosodic
constituent is built.
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