Tse, Holman
(2019)
Vowel shifts in Cantonese?: Toronto vs. Hong Kong.
Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 5 (1).
pp. 67-83.
ISSN 2215-1354
Abstract
This paper addresses Labov’s Principles of Vowel Chain Shifting in Toronto and Hong Kong Cantonese based on sociolinguistic interview data from the Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto Project. The analysis is based on the F1 and F2 values of a total of 33,179 vowel tokens from 11 monophthong categories produced by 32 speakers (8 from Hong Kong and 24 from Toronto). Results show the retraction of [y] among Toronto speakers when generational group (immigrated to Canada vs. grew up in Canada) is modeled as a main effect. When age is modeled instead, [i] is shown to be fronting in apparent time. In the Hong Kong group, age is a significant predictor for the lowering of [ɪ], [ʊ], [ɔ], and for the fronting of [ɔ] and [i]. Overall, results show more vowel shifting in Hong Kong than in Toronto as well as vowel shifting consistent with Labov’s Principles.
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