Thesis
A study of Mandarin homophony
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An investigation into the distribution of homophones was conducted using a large written corpus (Da, 2007). Both tone and homophony were found to be systematically uneven, with a tendency toward clustering. Syllables with the full complement of tones have, on average, higher homophone densities than those with fewer tonally-specified syllables, indicating a beneficial role of increasing homophone density in lexical processing. Three experiments were conducted to test this hypothesis. In Ex...
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+ Payne, E
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Linguistics Philology and Phonetics Faculty
Sub department:
Linguistics Philology and Phonetics Faculty
Oxford college:
St Hilda's College
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0002-9364-9399
+ Coleman, J
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Linguistics Philology and Phonetics Faculty
Sub department:
Linguistics Philology and Phonetics Faculty
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
Role:
Examiner
ORCID:
0000-0002-4982-6722
+ Johnson, K
Institution:
University of California Berkeley
Role:
Examiner
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Huff, CL
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
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Open Access (no embargo / immediate file release)
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