Speech perception can be shaped by factors such as lexical competition, synchronic
variation, and language dominance. Listeners can use lexical information to categorize …

Cantonese stands out from other Chinese dialects by having a complex tonal system.
However, this complex tonal system has been reported to be in the process of merging …

Cantonese lexical tones are preserved in both speaking and singing (which can be
regarded as a special kind of speech style). Through three main acoustic experiments, the …

The linguistic selection for the prestige form in a society, as discussed in Labov (2001) and
Hruschka et al (2009) for example, is also applicable to language contact. In a typical dyadic …

本文调查了120 个发音人香港粤语单字调的语料, 采用语音分析软件测量计算,
并用统计方法进行统计分析, 通过对年龄组别数据的统计分析, 我们发现不同年龄组之间的差异 …

This paper intends to study the tonal variation between tone 3a (ie Yinqu 阴去) and 2b (ie
Yangshang 阳上) as observed in modern Hong Kong Cantonese. Two social variables will …

Speech perception can be shaped by factors such as lexical competition, synchronic
variation, and language dominance. Listeners can use lexical information to categorize …

This paper intends to study the tonal variation between tone 3a (ie Yinqu 阴去) and 2b (ie
Yangshang 阳上) as observed in modern Hong Kong Cantonese. Two social variables will …

This thesis is an attempt to search for a proper linguistic account of the phonological aspect
of rhyming, under the Optimality-Theoretical (OT) framework, with special reference to the …

This paper investigated 120 subjects of Hong Kong Cantonese speakers. Based on the
collected data of Hong Kong Cantonese citation form, we used the computer software to get …