What is it about?
Tonal dialects of Mandarin Chinese use different pitches to distinguish between words. In Jinan Mandarin, for example, the word ‘simple’ has two tonal variants, while the word ‘very’ has only one. In order to further model the tonal patterns in Jinan Mandarin, a semi-automated procedure was used on a multi-speaker corpus containing irregular words. The program provided eleven tonal patterns, representing the tonal system used by Jinan Mandarin speakers from a wide range of age groups.
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Why is it important?
This method provides a way to retrieve tonal patterns in a semi-automatic way, reducing the workload of manual labelling. It can improve the efficiency and objectivity in the investigation of lexical tonal-pattern categories when building pronunciation dictionaries for under-resourced languages.
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This page is a summary of: Applying Functional Partition in the Investigation of Lexical Tonal-Pattern Categories in an Under-Resourced Chinese Dialect, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8111-8_3.
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