The emergence and evolution of linguistic tone

Project Information

EVOTONE

Grant agreement ID: 758605

DOI 10.3030/758605

EC signature date 24 November 2017

Start date 1 June 2018

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 481 154,00

EU contribution € 1 481 154,00

Coordinated by

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Transphonologization of onset voicing: revisiting Northern and Eastern Kmhmu’

Author(s): Kirby, James; Brunelle, Marc; Pittayaporn, Pittayawat
Published in: Phonetica, Issue 79(6), 2023, Page(s) 591-629, ISSN 0031-8388
Publisher: S. Karger AG
DOI: 10.1515/phon-2022-0029

Laryngeal contrast and sound change: The production and perception of plosive voicing and co-intrinsic pitch

Author(s): Gao J, Kirby J
Published in: Language, Issue 100(1), 2024, Page(s) 124-158, ISSN 1535-0665
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a922001

Elicitation context does not drive F0 lowering following voiced stops: Evidence from French and Italian

Author(s): James Kirby, D. Robert Ladd, Jiayin Gao, Zuzana Elliott
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 148/2, 2020, Page(s) EL147-EL152, ISSN 0001-4966
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
DOI: 10.1121/10.0001698

The role of F0 and phonation cues in Cantonese low tone perception.

Author(s): Yubin Zhang; James Kirby
Published in: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 148, 2020, Page(s) EL40, ISSN 0001-4966
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
DOI: 10.1121/10.0001523

Conference proceedings (5)

Effects of voiceless and preglottalized nasals on F0 in Eastern Khmu (Kmhmu' Am)

Author(s): James Kirby
Published in: Papers from the 30th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2021), 2022, Page(s) 318-333
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Effects of prosodic prominence on obstruent-intrinsic F0 and VOT in German

Author(s): James Kirby, Felicitas Kleber, Jessica Siddins, Jonathan Harrington
Published in: 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 2020, Page(s) 210-214
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2020-43

Intrinsic fundamental frequency differences in two tonal Austronesian languages

Author(s): Laura Arnold, Jiayin Gao, James Kirby
Published in: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023, Page(s) 3345-3349, ISBN 978-80-908114-2-3
Publisher: Guarant International

Incorporating tone in the calculation of phonotactic probability

Author(s): James Kirby
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2021, Page(s) 32-38
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.sigmorphon-1.4

Perceptual adaptation to altered cue informativeness: Distributional, auditory, and lexical factors

Author(s): Jiayin Gao, James Kirby
Published in: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023, Page(s) 137-141, ISBN 978-80-908114-2-3
Publisher: Guarant International