Intelligibility of Central Sui GC Intelligibility of Southern Sui SY
8.5.1 Intelligibility of Central Sui GC
Results of the GC Central Sui RTT are shown in figure 8.2. Sui speakers from Central, Western, Yang’an and two of the Eastern datapoints achieved scores of over 91 when listening to the GC RTT. Renli RL participants scored slightly lower, on average 86, perhaps because Renli is geographically the furthest away fom the Central Sui area. The scores of Southern Sui participants were varied. SW and JQ scored averages of 94 and 87 respectively, whereas JR and SY both in Libo county, the southernmost points in the Southern dialect area scored under 75. Southern Sui speakers in Libo county struggle somewhat to understand Central Sui GC lect. Pandong dialect speakers clearly cannot understand Central Sui GC very well at all. Both regions scored less than 55. Overall, though, Central Sui GC is the most widely understood lect across the Sui region. Figure 8.2. Comprehension levels for Sandong GC sentences. Both TZ and JR showed standard deviations over 10. This means that there was a particularly wide range of individual scores at these two locations and that the average result is not so reliable. When the RTT score is particularly low, as in the case of JL and PD listening to the GC test, a higher standard deviation is common, and these two datapoints are no exception. The remaining twelve test points have standard deviations below 10, indicating that the results were relatively consistent and are more reliable.8.5.2 Intelligibility of Southern Sui SY
Results of the SY Southern RTT are shown in figure 8.3. Only SY participants themselves achieved an average of higher than 85. Average results from the other Southern Sui datapoints were 82, 80 and 77 for SW, JQ and JR respectively. Apart from SD Central, who achieved 78, results of people from other dialect areas mostly ranged from 50 to 64. PD, geographically the furthest away from SY, only scored an average of 31. Figure 8.3. Comprehension levels for Southern SY sentences. These results suggest that very high comprehension of the SY lect is limited to areas very close geographically to SY. 7 We guess that JR Libo county may have better coverage over the whole Southern Sui area since its pronunciation chapter 5, sections 5.2.3 and 5.4.7 and vocabulary see chapter 6, sections 6.3.3.2 and 6.4.4 are more representative of the Southern dialect area as a whole. The standard deviations for the SY RTT results were slightly higher than for the GC test see above, possibly because average scores were generally lower. We consider the TZ results unreliable due to the extremely high standard deviation. Some of the participants in TZ were upper middle school students due to a shortage of other people available to take part in the test. These students probably had a higher level of contact with other dialects than those participants who had only been to a local first or middle school.8.5.3 Intelligibility of Yang’an Sui LW
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» Introduction and objectives e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Background e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Previous research on the Sui language
» Research findings e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Origins of the Sui people and their migratory history
» Sandong SD Shuigen village, Sandong district Zhonghe ZH Hezhai hamlet, Zhonghe village
» Tangzhou TZ Meiyu village, Tangzhou district Antang AT Antang village, Tangzhou district
» Tingpai TP Xinyang village, Tingpai township Dujiang DJ Zenlei village, Dujiang township
» Banliang BL Banliang village, Tangzhou district Jiaoli JL Gaorong village, Jiaoli district
» Proto-Sui: A questionable hypothesis
» Lack of thorough and reliable reconstructions Debate over prosodic form of the proto language
» Difficulty in identifying cognates and loanwords
» Data and conventions e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Summary of argument Background
» Shared tonal developments in Yang’an Sui and Kam
» Shared tonal developments in Pandong, Western, Yang’an Sui and Kam
» Unique tonal developments in Southern Sui
» Summary Discussion Divergent tonal development in Sui dialects
» Merger of entering tones in Jiaoli JL, Pandong Merger of Tones 7 and 8 in Shuiyao SY, Southern
» Sui “voiced-high” tone value distinctiveness: An areal feature
» Tone 6 Variation in Sui phonetic tone values
» Summary of findings e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Introduction e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Prenasalised voiced stops Onsets
» Palatalised onsets From onsets to rimes: Palatalisation, labialisation and glides
» Labialised onsets From onsets to rimes: Palatalisation, labialisation and glides
» PKS -e and -ai partial merger in Tangzhou TZ PKS -
» Yang’an Shared diachronic innovations and Sui subgrouping
» Southern Central, Western, Eastern and Pandong
» PKS retentions shared by all Sui dialects Late sound changes shared by all Sui dialects
» Phonetic variation Background e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Selection of data for comparison
» Method of determining lexical similarity
» Sui and Kam Lexical similarity counts
» Sui dialects Lexical similarity counts
» Pandong Sui dialect variants
» Yang’an Sui dialect variants
» Dialect variants shared by Pandong and Yang’an Sui Southern Sui dialect variants
» Differences in semantic range
» Semantic shift due to lexical replacement
» Semantic differences due to differences in physical environment
» SD and JQ: A lexical and semantic crossover region Semantic change: Conclusion
» Conclusion e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Introduction Background: Dialectometry and Levenshtein distance LD
» Calculating Levenshtein distance Methodology
» Selection of Sui and Kam data for comparison
» Pre-processing of Sui and Kam data
» LD calculated using narrow, phonetic transcriptions
» LD calculated using broad, phonemicised transcriptions
» Sandong SD and Zhonghe ZH: the most representative varieties Cluster determinants
» Results of Sui and Kam dialect comparison
» Conclusions Introduction e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Measuring intelligibility e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Recorded Text Test RTT: Story question and answer method
» Word recognition tests Sentence completion tests
» Sentence translation tests Content question and answer tests
» Towards a new methodology: The sentence retelling L2 test
» Designing the sentences Methodology
» Translating and recording the sentences Designing the tests
» Administering the tests sampling and procedures
» Scoring the tests Methodology
» Intelligibility of Central Sui GC Intelligibility of Southern Sui SY
» Intelligibility of Yang’an Sui LW Intelligibility of Pandong Sui PD
» Methodology critique e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Visualisations Dialect clusters indicated by wordlist analysis
» Group B e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Group A e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Group C e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Group A sentences Group B sentences
» Group C sentences Group A sentences
» Group B sentences Group C sentences
» Initials Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata
» Initials Finals Tones e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Initials Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata Initials
» Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata Initials
» Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata Initials Finals
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