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Kuo, Chen-Hsiu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates how the Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Groups are perceived, and the acoustic/phonetics correlates of listeners' judgments. A series of perception experiments have been conducted to scrutinize the following topics--Taiwanese tone neutralization, Tone Sandhi Group (TSG) as a prosodic domain, perceived boundary strength in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Correlation, Intonation, Computational Linguistics
Liao, Sze-wei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, the rapid liberalization and democratization of Taiwan has led to the transformation of its political structure from a single-party system to a full-fledged two-party system. Along with this political opposition are the two contrastive concepts, the North and the South. Located in this background, this…
Descriptors: Political Affiliation, Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes