Acoustic Analysis of the Citation Tones of Miaoli Sixian Hakka

• Main Authors: WENG, JIE, 翁杰
• Other Authors: Cheng, Ming-chung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/968yd7

碩士 === 國立聯合大學 === 客家語言與傳播研究所 === 105 === Abstract 　　This study explored six citation tones in Miaoli Sixian Hakka (MSH) in terms of acoustics, and compared the difference in tonal descriptions between acoustic analysis and traditional survey. Twelve middle-aged MSH native speakers participated in this study. According to their gender, they were evenly divided into two groups. This study recorded their citation tones, and used PRAAT to measure F0 duration. The F0 duration was evenly divided into ten sections, and the F0 values of the eleven dividing points were extracted. The fetched F0 values were then transformed into five-scale tonal T values, and the T values were used to calculate F0 means and F0 slopes of the target tones. Results showed that great difference existed in MSH tone descriptions between acoustic analysis and traditional survey. Furthermore, there was a significant gender difference in F0 mean of MSH citation tones, rather than in F0 slopes. Last, this study attempted to explicate the descriptive differences between acoustic analysis and traditional survey, and give sociolinguistic explanations for gender difference in MSH citation tones.