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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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(in English) 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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(in English) Mandarin Chinese / Tone 3 Sandhi / visual world paradigm / eye movement / prosodic cue / lexical processing / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 149, TL2017-37, pp. 121-126, July 2017.
Paper # TL2017-37 
Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2017-07-22 - 2017-07-23 
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Place (in English) NINJAL 
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Topics (in English) Human Language Processing and Learning 
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Conference Code 2017-07-TL 
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Title (in English) The prosodic information of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi helps disambiguate between N-N compound and N-N coordination structure 
Sub Title (in English) A visual world paradigm study 
Keyword(1) Mandarin Chinese  
Keyword(2) Tone 3 Sandhi  
Keyword(3) visual world paradigm  
Keyword(4) eye movement  
Keyword(5) prosodic cue  
Keyword(6) lexical processing  
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1st Author's Name Tzu-Yin Chen  
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
2nd Author's Name Yuki Hirose  
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
3rd Author's Name Takane Ito  
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
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Date Time 2017-07-23 14:10:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
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Paper # TL2017-37 
Volume (vol) vol.117 
Number (no) no.149 
Page pp.121-126 
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Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL) 


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