2018 |
'Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: five disyllabic tone sandhi patterns in cognate words from the Wu dialects of Zhèjiāng province.' Paper submitted for INTERSPEECH 2018.
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2018 |
'Declination-adjusted Normalisation of Cantonese Citation Tones.' Paper submitted for INTERSPEECH 2018.
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2016 |
'Normalization of Zhangzhou Citation Tones.' Paper with Huang Yishan, Mark Donohue & Paul Sidwell accepted after peer review. In Christopher Carignan & Michael D. Tyler (eds.) Proceedings 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology: 217-220.
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2016 |
'Comparing Normalisation Stratagies for Citation Tone F0 in Three Chinese Dialects.' Paper accepted after peer review. In Christopher Carignan & Michael D. Tyler (eds.) Proceedings 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology: 221-224.
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2016 |
'Preservation of Tone in Right-Dominant Tone Sandhi: A Fragment of Disyllabic Tone Sandhi in Maodian Wu Chinese.' Paper with Shen Ruiqing accepted after peer review. In Christopher Carignan & Michael D. Tyler (eds.) Proceedings 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology: 345-348.
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2016 |
'Complexities of Tonal Realisation in a Right-Dominant Chinese Wu Dialect - Disyllabic Tone Sandhi in a Speaker from Wencheng.' Journal of the South East Asian Linguistics Society 9: 48-80.
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2016 |
'Review of Zhang Jingwei: 'A Sociophonetic Study on Tonal Variation of the Wuxi and Shanghai Dialects'. (Requested by) Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26/1: 161-173.
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2015 |
'Tonation in Three Chinese Wu Dialects'. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,(no page numbers),Glasgow.
Note: The link here is to a pdf file with embedded audio which should work within IE, but not Chrome, for which it will probably need to be downloaded before the audio can be heard.
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2014 |
Mr. White Goes to Market – Running Speech and Citation Tones in a Southern Thai Dialectal. In Jennifer Hay and Emma Parnel (eds.) Proc. 15th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science & Technology (full paper review). Christchurch, pp. 110-113. ISSN1039-0227.
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2014 |
Transcribing Tone – A likelihood-based quantitative evaluation of
Chao’s tone letters.
Proc. 2014 Interspeech, Singapore: 101-105.
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2013 |
Foreward to Cathryn Donohue's Fuzhou tonal acoustics and tonology. 福州聲調 Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 82: v-vii.
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2011 |
逆溯制造温州方言聲調和連讀變調:兩個人差異與歷史發展 Reverse-engineering tones and tone sandhi in Wenzhou dialect: between-speaker differences and historical development. International Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 5/2: 29-48.
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2010 |
The long and the short of Wencheng tones – acoustic and auditory description of tonologically challenging phenomena in an Oujiang Wu dialect of Chinese. In Tabain, Fletcher, Grayden, Hajek, Butcher eds. Proc.13 th Australasian International Conf. Speech Science and Technology (full paper review), Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association: 54-57.
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2009 |
(with W. Steed) Same tone, different category: linguistic-tonetic variation in the areal tonal acoustics of Chu-qu Wu. (Proc. Interspeech ’09) (full paper review): 2295 - 2298.
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2009 |
Singing the Syllables: Translating Spelling into Music in Tibetan Spelling Chant. In Amy Chan and Alistair Noble (eds.) Sounds in Translation. Intersections of music, technology and society. ANU E press: 145 – 167.
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2008 |
Oujiang Wu tones and Acoustic Reconstruction’. In Bowern, Evans, Miceli (eds.) Morphology and Language History. pp. 235-250. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 298, John Benjamins.
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2006 |
"Zooming in on Oujiang Wu: tonal homogeneity and acoustic reconstructin in a small subgroup of Chinese dialects." In Warren & Watson (eds.) Proc. 11th Australasian International Conf. Speech Science and Technology.
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2004 |
'"Defying Explanation"? - Accounting for Tones in Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone Sandhi'. In S. Cassidy (ed.) Proc. 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association: 237 – 242.
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2004 |
“The Acoustics and Probabilistic Phonology of Short-stopped Syllable Tones in Hong Kong Cantonese”. In S. Cassidy (ed.) Proc. 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association: 445-450.
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2004 |
“費國華 序”. Preface to 朱晓农 上海声调实验录 [Zhu Xiaonong An Experimental Study in Shanghai Tones], Shanghai Educational Publishing House 2004:1-3.
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2002 |
‘Independent depressor and register effects in Wu dialect tonology: Evidence from Wenzhou tone sandhi’. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 30/1:39-81.
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2002 |
‘Tonal Complexity as Conditioning Factor: More Depressing Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone Sandhi’. In C. Bow (ed.) Proc. 9th Australian Intl. Conf on Speech Science & Technology, Melbourne: Australian Speech Science & Technology Association: 64-69.
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2001 |
'Sbyor Klog - a musical and linguistic analysis of Tibetan Spelling Chant'. In Hannes Kniffka (ed.) Indigenous Grammar Across Cultures. Peter Lang Verlag: 161-216.
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2001 |
‘Wu’. In Jane Garry and Carl Rubino (eds.) Facts About the World’s Languages: an encyclopedia of the world’s major languages, past and present. New York: New England Publishing Associates: 158-161.
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2000 |
‘Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone Sandhi with First Syllable Entering Tones’. In Michael Barlow (ed.) Proceedings of the 8th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference Canberra: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association: 230-235.
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2000 |
‘Hong Kong Cantonese Citation Tone Acoustics: A Linguistic-Tonetic Study’. In Michael Barlow (ed.) Proceedings of the 8th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference Canberra: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association: 198-203.
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1998 |
'Tones of a Tridialectal: Acoustic and Perceptual Data on Ten Linguistic Tonetic Contrasts between Lao, Nyo and Standard Thai'. In Robert Mannell and Jordi Robert-Ribes (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. The Australian Speech Science and Technology Association. Vol. 2: 49-52.
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1998 |
'The Differential Status of Semivowels in the Acoustic Phonetic Realisation of Tone'. In Robert Mannell and Jordi Robert-Ribes (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. The Australian Speech Science and Technology Association. Vol 2: 61-64.
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1998 |
(with Sean Zhu) 'Tonal Complexity as a Dialectal Feature: 25 Different Citation Tones from Four Zhejiang Wu Dialects'. In Robert Mannell and Jordi Robert-Ribes (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. The Australian Speech Science and Technology Association. Vol 3: 919-922.
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1997 |
'A Seven-tone dialect in Southern Thai with Super High: Pakphanang Tonal Acoustics and Physiological Inferences'. In A. Abramson (ed.) Southeast Asian Linguistic Studies in Honour of Vichin Panupong, 191-208.
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1996 |
'Between- and within-Speaker variation in the fundamental frequency of Cantonese citation tones. 'In Pamela Davis and Neville Fletcher (eds.)Vocal Fold Physiology: Controlling Complexity and Chaos: Singular Press: 307-324.
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1996 |
'The realisation of stopped-syllable tones in Hua Sai and Pakphanang'. In Paul McCormak & Alison Russel (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Australian International Conf. on Speech Science and Technology, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association: 605-610.
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1996 |
'Aerodynamic Involvement in Intrinsic F0 perturbations - Evidence from Thai-Phake'. In Paul McCormak & Alison Russel (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Australian International Conf. on Speech Science and Technology, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association: 593-598.
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1996 |
'Spectrographic Analysis'. In R.M.W. Dixon and Grace Koch (eds.) Dyirbal Song Poetry, University of Queensland Press: 335-337.
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1995 |
聲調音韻學研究 - 鎮海方言雙音節詞連讀變調的聲學語音學分析 [ 'An acoustic analysis of disyllabic lexical tone sandhi in Zhenhai dialect'; in Chinese] In E. Zee ed. 吳語研究/ Studies of the Wu Dialects New Asia Academic Bulletin 1, Chinese University of Hong Kong: 239-260.
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1994 |
'Any Advance on Eleven? Linguistic Tonetic Contrasts in a Bidialectal Speaker'. In Roberto Togneri (ed.) Proc. 5th Australian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 132-137.
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1994 |
'Wenzhou Tonal Acoustics: Depressor and Register Effects in Chinese Tonology'. In Roberto Togneri (ed.) Proc. 5th Australian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 138-143.
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1994 |
'Renewing the Connection: Acoustics and Phonology of Two Lexical Trisyllabic Tone Patterns in Zhenhai'. In H. Kitamura et al. eds. Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Organising committee 26ICSTLL, 412-18.
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1994 |
(with T.Toda) 'A Typology of Tone Sandhi Rules in Northern Wu'. In H. Kitamura et al. eds. Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Organising committee 26ICSTLL, Osaka:267-73.
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1993 |
'A Linguistic Phonetic Acoustic Analysis of Shanghai Tones'. Australian Journal of Linguistics 13: 185-219.
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1992 |
'Bidirectional Interaction between Tone and Syllable-Coda: Acoustic Evidence from Chinese'. In J.Pittam ed. Proc. 4th Australian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 292-297.
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1991 |
'How effective are long term mean and standard deviation as normalisation parameters for tonal fundamental frequency?' Speech Communication 10, 229-247.
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1990 |
'Linguistic Phonetic Aspects of Shanghai Tonal Acoustics'. In R. Seidl ed. Proc. 3rd Australian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology, Australian Speech Science and Technology Assn., 388-393.
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1990 |
'Thai-Phake tones: acoustic, aerodynamic and perceptual data on a Tai dialect with contrastive creak'. In R. Seidl ed. Proc. 3rd Australian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology, Australian Speech Science and Technology Assn., 394-399.
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1990 |
'Acoustics and Phonology of Complex Tone Sandhi'. Phonetica 47, 1-35.
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1989 |
'On the non-equivalence of fundamental frequency and pitch in tonal description'. In D. Bradley, E. Henderson and M. Mazaudon, eds. Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: to Honour R.K.Sprigg. Pacific Linguistics, 55-82.
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1989 |
'Phonetics and phonology of the yang tone phonation types in Zhenhai' Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 18/2, 229-245.
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1988 |
'Normalisation of Tonal F0 from Long Term F0 Distributions'. In M. Wagner ed. Proc. 2nd Australian Intl Conf. on Speech Science and Technology. Australian Speech Science and Technology Assn., 68-73.
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1987 |
'Considerations in the normalisation of the fundamental frequency of linguistic tone'. Speech Communication 6/4, 343-352.
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1986 |
'The normalisation of tone'. In Proc. 1st Australian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology. Australian National University, 130-135.
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1984 |
'The role of subglottal pressure and vocal chord tension in the production of tones in a Chinese dialect'. In B. Hong ed. New papers on Chinese Language Use. Australian National University, 133-168.
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1982 |
'Acoustic Characteristics of the Shanghai-Zhenhai syllable-types'. In D. Bradley, ed. Tonation. Pacific Linguistics Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics 8, 1-53.
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1982 |
'An Acoustically Based Phonetic Description of the Syllable in the Zhenhai Dialect'. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge.
422 pp.
(You can find this referred to in Amazon as a "Phometic" description, which sounds much more interesting.)
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1974 |
'Phonology of the Ningpo Dialect of Chinese (with special reference to the tones)'. Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Manchester.
97 pp.
pdf - please be patient - it's a big document! |