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The prosodic information of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi helps disambiguate between N-N compound and N-N coordination structure
-- A visual world paradigm study -- Tzu-Yin Chen, Yuki Hirose, Takane Ito (Univ. of Tokyo) TL2017-37 |
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Mandarin Chinese Tone 3 Sandhi (T3S) is a phenomenon where a tone 3 syllable (T3) changes to tone 2 when followed by another T3. It is conceivable that the occurrence of T3S serves as a cue for listeners to increase the possibility that the syllable in question will be followed by another T3 syllable within a certain domain where the rule T3S applies. However, some previous studies claim that the domain of application of T3S is not necessarily morpho-syntactically determined, analyzing T3S as a phonologically conditioned process of tonal change. Furthermore, it has been reported that T3S is not obligatorily applied in a sequence of T3 syllables so that non-application of T3S is unlikely to provide much information on the upcoming tone or structure. We conducted a visual world paradigm experiment where participants looked at a visual display consisting of monster characters representing N-N compound interpretation and those representing N-N coordination interpretation (where the two nouns are in separate domains for T3S). Four auditory stimuli types of N-N sequence were used: T3S + T3, T3 + T3 (where T3S is not applied), T3 + non-T3 (T3S is not conditioned), and non-T3 + T3. The results are: (i) T3S + T3 condition promoted N-N compound interpretation while (ii) both of the two initial T3 conditions where T3S didn’t occur (T3+ T3 and T3 + non-T3) promoted the N-N coordination reading. Further comparison between the two initial T3 conditions has revealed that (iii) T3 + T3 facilitated N-N coordination reading more strongly than T3 + non-T3, where the former, but not the latter, constitutes a T3S environment. These results suggest that the non-application of T3S facilitates the presence of a word boundary while the application of T3S is linked to the absence of a word boundary, and listeners use both of the information of whether T3S applied to the first noun or not and the lexical tone of the second noun to disambiguate between N-N compound and N-N coordination structure. |
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Mandarin Chinese / Tone 3 Sandhi / visual world paradigm / eye movement / prosodic cue / lexical processing / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 149, TL2017-37, pp. 121-126, July 2017. |
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TL2017-37 |
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2017-07-15 (TL) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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2017-07-22 - 2017-07-23 |
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The prosodic information of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi helps disambiguate between N-N compound and N-N coordination structure |
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A visual world paradigm study |
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Mandarin Chinese |
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Tone 3 Sandhi |
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visual world paradigm |
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eye movement |
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prosodic cue |
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lexical processing |
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Tzu-Yin Chen |
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The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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Yuki Hirose |
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The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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Takane Ito |
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The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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2017-07-23 14:10:00 |
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30 minutes |
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TL2017-37 |
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vol.117 |
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no.149 |
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pp.121-126 |
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2017-07-15 (TL) |
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