Korean is thought to be unique in having three kinds of voiceless stops: aspirated/ph th kh/,
tense/p* t* k*/, and lax/ptk/. The contrast between tense and lax stops raises two theoretical …

The phonetics and phonology of consonant–f0 interaction in Shanghai Chinese were
examined to further refine our understanding of consonant–f0 interaction in general. Bi …

Shanghai Chinese has evolved from the eight-tone system recorded in Edkins (1853) to the
current five-tone system (Qian 2003). Figure 1 illustrates the f0 contours of the five tones (T1 …

This chapter discusses a range of issues on syllables and stress in Chinese: the maximal
and minimal sizes of syllables, their structures, whether syllables need an onset and …

Chinese tone sandhi systems are often classified as left-dominant or right-dominant
depending on the position of the syllable retaining the citation tone. An asymmetry exists …

A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy to the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University, Victoria …

An eye-tracking study investigated how the interaction between syllable frequency and
syllable-specific tonal probability guides online lexical access in speakers of mutually …

Pitch variations are used in different languages in a variety of communicative ways, from
cueing lexical item identity to conveying meaning through phrasing and accentuation …

Linguists often classify languages into various types. In generative phonology, language
typology is usually translated into parameters, such as the parameter for trochaic vs. iambic …

One of the first problems in language learning is to segment words from continuous speech.
Both prosodic and distributional information can be useful, and it is an important question …