Essays about: "lexical tone"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words lexical tone.

1. 1. Mandarin lexical tone perception by native speakers of Greek

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Dimitrios Apostolou; [2022]
   Keywords : Chinese; Mandarin; Greek; lexical tone; perception study; discrimination task; AXB; 关键词：汉语普通话声调、希腊语、感知能力、声调辨识、AXB 辨识测试;

   Abstract : This study examines the perception of Mandarin lexical tones by native speakers of Greek who are naïve to Mandarin. Being able to discriminate between Mandarin lexical tones is essential for effective and accurate communication in the language. READ MORE

3. 2. Naïve listeners’ perceptual learning of Chinese tones: The influence of L1 background in prosody and the effect of an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Lili Wen; [2019]
   Keywords : Tone perception; Tone acquisition; Mandarin 声调感知; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The present perceptual learning study was conducted in an attempt to investigate to which extent naïve listeners’ L1 prosodic background affected their learning performance of a lexical tone language and whether an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm curtailed the online-learning process of lexical tones. Thirty-three Mandarin-naïve Swedish-native listeners (NS listeners) and 33 Mandarin-naïve English-native listeners (NE listeners) participated in a behaviour experiment designed to answer the question of whether native listeners of a pitch accent language (NS listeners) had an advantage over native listeners of a non-tonal non-pitch-accent language (NE listeners) in learning to perceive tones in Mandarin Chinese (MC). READ MORE

4. 3. Holistic and combinatorial processing of Swedish tone accents in the brain: An MMN study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Renata Kochancikaite; [2019]
   Keywords : tone accents; Swedish; phonology; morphology; accent 1; accent 2; neurolinguistics; EEG; event-related potentials; MMN; mismatch negativity; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : All words in Swedish have a particular melody. There are two tonal patterns that are observed in different prosodic and morphological contexts – accent 1 and accent 2. The tone of accent 1 is the default melody in Swedish and is said to be of intonational nature. READ MORE

5. 4. Selected topics in the grammar and lexicon of Matal

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

   Author : Allahverdi Verdizade; [2018]
   Keywords : Matal; Chadic languages; verbal morphology; Afroasiatic languages; Cameroon; parallel text; under-documented langauges; Matal; tchadspråk; verbmorfologi; afroasiatiska språk; Kamerun; parallelltext; underdocumenterade språk;

   Abstract : This thesis describes basic grammatical features and lexicon of Matal, a Chadic language spoken by around 18 000 people in northern Cameroon. A translation of the New Testament is used as a parallel text for the purposes of this study. The identified language structures are compared with other Chadic languages. READ MORE

6. 5. THE PROSODY OF TENSE MARKING IN TEKE-EBOO. A Bantu B70 language of Congo-Brazzaville

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2017-06-20]
   Keywords : Afrikanska språk; African linguistics; Bantu B70 language cluster; Eboo; Kukuya; tense marking; stem-initial stress accent; tone melodies; grammatical tone; intonation; downstep; boundary L tone;

   Abstract : Teke-Eboo is a Bantu B70 language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville, which displays complex tone melodies combining grammatical tone, subject agreement tone and lexical tone on verbs. This study of tense marking in Eboo identifies the tones which mark the recent past, general past and future tenses, and shows how the underlying high-low (H-L) contrastive tone system adds both downstepped H and mid (M) tones in surface realisations. READ MORE