This paper examines the newly developed tones in Cantonese English, with a particular
interest in the tones spanning across syllables. It attempts to provide phonetic evidence for the …

It has been shown that the relative pitch levels of Cantonese tones closely correspond to
musical intervals (MIs) [1]. Given that an emerging tone language, Cantonese English, has …

This paper looks into how linguistic tones can be understood as musical tones. It provides a
demonstration of the relationship between linguistic tone and musical intervals (MIs), which …

This paper explores a metrical interpretation of prominence in Swatou (Teochew, Southern
Min), a six-tone language with bidirectional sandhi spoken in the Chaoshan region of China, …

Languages with tonal underspecification have an absence of tone (Ø) in their tone systems.
While underspecified tone is commonly found in the Bantu tone literature (eg Pulleyblank …

This ultrasound study examines the gestural coordination involved in vowel-to-consonant
sequences concerning unreleased final stops, which are more susceptible to reduction than …

According to the Iambic/Trochaic Law, there is a perceptual universal where initial prominence
is generally signalled with intensity while final prominence with duration based on …

This paper examines the application of the Iambic/Trochaic Law to complex tone languages
like Jieyang (Teochew, Southern Min). With bidirectional tone sandhi on top of its six-tone …

Two primary areas of current research on the relationship between musical tone and linguistic
tone are the intelligibility of speech tone in sung melody and the quantification of cross-…

This paper argues that the durational asymmetry predicted by the Iambic-Trochaic Law (Hayes
1985, 1995) for languages typically considered as stress languages is also found in …