Mental representation of tonal spreading in Bemba : Evidence from elicited production and perception

Kula, Nancy C.; Braun, Bettina

Mental representation of tonal spreading in Bemba : Evidence from elicited production and perception

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2015

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Kula, Nancy C.

Braun, Bettina

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Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 2015, 33(3), pp. 307-323. ISSN 1607-3614. eISSN 1727-9461. Available under: doi: 10.2989/16073614.2015.1108768

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Previous research has shown that listeners from tonal languages are better at processing tone compared to speakers from non-tonal languages. However, most of this research has tested Asian tone languages, particularly those which have many tonal contrasts and a dense tone-to-syllable association. In this paper we investigate the mental representation of derived tones in Bemba, a Bantu language that has a two-way tone contrast but which shows robust tone spreading patterns. Specifically, we test ternary high-tone spreading, a process that is unique from a phonological perspective. In a production task we test whether ternary spread can be extended to non-words. We complement this with an AX discrimination task comparing binary vs ternary spread, which are phonologically contrastive, on the one hand, with a tonally similarly salient but non-phonologically relevant contrast, on the other. We show that in both the production and percep- tion of non-words, ternary spread is distinct from binary spread, suggesting that derived tone is equally mentally represented as lexical tone is in Asian tone languages.

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KULA, Nancy C., Bettina BRAUN, 2015. Mental representation of tonal spreading in Bemba : Evidence from elicited production and perception. In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 2015, 33(3), pp. 307-323. ISSN 1607-3614. eISSN 1727-9461. Available under: doi: 10.2989/16073614.2015.1108768

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  year={2015},
  doi={10.2989/16073614.2015.1108768},
  title={Mental representation of tonal spreading in Bemba : Evidence from elicited production and perception},
  number={3},
  volume={33},
  issn={1607-3614},
  journal={Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies},
  pages={307--323},
  author={Kula, Nancy C. and Braun, Bettina},
  note={PDF ist erwünscht, rechtl. Bedingungen:  Postprint (Sherpa), 24.02.2016 ka}
}

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