Yuan Liang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuan Liang is involved.

Title

The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese

Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang

Special issue of Language and Linguistics 23:1 (2022) v, 139 pp. | open access

Liang, Yuan and Lian-Hee Wee 2022 Melodic-prosodic duality of the syllable: An application to Chinese The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese, Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang (eds.), pp. 82–115 | Article

Implicit in all current theories of the syllable is some assumption of the internal configuration. Prevalent among these are the onset-rime (OR) and the moraic (μ) models, both supported by rather different types of evidence. The OR model favors an interpretation where constituency is exhaustive… read more

Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang 2022 Preface The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese, Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Introduction

Liang, Yuan and Lian-Hee Wee 2016 代表属性: 发音人的选择和语料有效性 [Parameters of representativeness: Subject selection and data integrity] International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1, pp. 160–174 | Article

As an empirical study, linguistic investigations rely heavily on the selection of suitable subject speakers as representatives of a language community, which in turn underline the necessity of determining representativeness. Through explicit description of the parameters that define a target… read more

Liang, Yuan, Szeching Sin and Feng Wang  語言接觸中弱勢語言對強勢語言的影響 [The influence of a subordinate language on a dominant language]: 以「白普」鼻音韻尾脫落為例 [A case study of nasal coda loss in Bai Pu] Language and Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article

中國雲南大理白語-普通話雙語社區通行的普通話（白普）受到白語干擾，出現鼻音韻尾脫落的特徵，這是弱勢語言（白語）影響強勢語言（普通話）的一種接觸誘發的語言變化。本文采用橫斷面研究設計，對白普鼻音韻尾的產出變異進行考察。數據分析結果顯示，聲調對鼻音韻尾的產出有顯著影響；發音人的語言優勢是影響白普鼻音韻尾脫落的一個重要指標。元音舌位不直接影響鼻音韻尾的產出，但不同聲調對於鼻音韻尾是否脫落的影響卻因元音舌位而出現顯著不同；當音節元音為高舌位元音時，語言優勢對於正確發出鼻音韻尾的作用也更大。此外，聲調與語言優勢的交互作用顯著。這些結果展示了語言因素和社會因素在共同塑造白普鼻音韻尾脫落的相互作用。 read more