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Cheng, Chin-Chuan Chao, Huey-Ju 2011-05-07T12:26:51Z 2011-05-07T12:26:51Z 10000-01-01 1992 This dissertation studies aspiration in Chinese in these four areas: the temporal relationships between aspiration and the vowel of the syllable, the perception of aspiration, the correlation between pitch and aspiration, and the role of aspiration in a historical change in Chinese. Data based on 144 words with aspiration contrasts were derived from the experiments which involved production and perception by a total of 28 Chinese speakers. On the basis of the measurements of acoustical characteristics of the voice onset time and the lengths of the syllable, a constant ratio model has been proposed to describe the timing relationships among the elements within a syllable. The perceptual experiment tested the cues of aspiration by deleting the portion of the voice onset time from the syllable on the front, back, middle and both ends. The results are reported and discussed. The effects of aspiration on intrinsic tone heights in Mandarin were measured and the significance calculated. Finally some attempts are made to solve the development of aspiration from voiced obstruents under the condition of different tones from Middle Chinese to modern dialects. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:26:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9236418.pdf: 8508157 bytes, checksum: dc9cc34f99c44425a9ec720ef45b7aed (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:41:08Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:17:45-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9236418 (UMI)AAI9236418 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20039 eng Copyright 1992 Chao, Huey-ju Language, Ancient Language, Linguistics Physics, Acoustics Aspiration in Chinese text Linguistics Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.