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Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

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Tse, Holman (2024) Functional load and vowel merger in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. In Rao, Rajiv (ed.). The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages, pp. 280-301. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966986.014

A8)

Nagy, Naomi; Tse, Holman and James Stanford (2024). Have Cantonese tones merged in spontaneous speech? In Rao, Rajiv (ed.). The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages, pp. 302-320. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966986.015

A7)

Tse, Holman (2022) What can Cantonese heritage speakers tell us about age of acquisition, linguistic dominance, and sociophonetic variation? In Bayley, Robert; Preston, Dennis and Xiaoshi Li (eds). Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic Perspectives, John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/silv.28.05tse

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A6)

Tse, Holman (2019). Vowel Shifts in Cantonese?: Toronto vs. Hong Kong. Asia Pacific Language Variation 5(1): 67-83
DOI: 10.1075/aplv.19001.tse

Link to Article (on John Benjamins e-platform)
Manuscript Version (on Pitt D-Scholarship)

A5)

Tse, Holman (2016b). Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese: An Analysis of Two Monophthongs Across Two Generations. Asia Pacific Language Variation 2(2): 124-156
DOI: 10.1075/aplv.2.2.02tse

Link to Article (on John Benjamins e-platform)
Manuscript Version (on Pitt D-Scholarship)

A4)

Tse, Holman (2016a). Contact-Induced Splits in Toronto Heritage Cantonese Mid-Vowels. Linguistica Atlantica 35(2): 133-155

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A3)

Tse, Holman (2015b) The Role of Shift-Induced Interference in the Development of a Typologically Rare Phonological Contrast in Somali Bantu Kizigua. TIPA Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le Langage (TIPA) v. 31.
DOI: 10.4000/tipa.1426

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A2)

Tse, Holman (2015a) The Diachronic Emergence of Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Internal Motivation or Contact-Induced Change? Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 44), ed. Ruth Kramer, Elizabeth C. Zsiga, and One Tlale Boyer, 277-289. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

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A1)

Tse, Holman (2013) Methodological considerations in the study of sociophonetic variation in an underdocumented minority language: Somali Bantu Kizigua as a case study. Proceedings of Journées d’Études Toulousaines (JéTou 2013), University of Toulouse, 129-139.

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Book Reviews/Notes

R2)

Tse, Holman (2015) Review of Barbara Johnstone, Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii, 266. Pb. £27.50. Sociolinguistic Studies 9(2-3): 341-344.
DOI: 10.1558/sols.v9i2.26683

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R1)

Tse, Holman (2014) Review of Janet M. Fuller, Bilingual pre-teens: Competing ideologies and multiple identities in the US and Germany. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. x, 177. Hb. $125. Language in Society 43: 133–134.
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404513001000

Link to Review (Cambridge University Press Journals)
Manuscript Version (on Pitt D-Scholarship)

Unpublished Papers (PDF’s on D-Scholarship@Pitt)

Theses and Comprehensive Papers

T5)

Tse, Holman (2019) “Beyond the Monolingual Core and out into the Wild: A Variationist Study of Early Bilingualism and Sound Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese“. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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T4)

Tse, Holman (2015) “Variation and Change in Four Contrastive Vowels in Toronto Heritage Cantonese” Unpublished Comprehensive Paper. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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T3)

Tse, Holman (2014) “The Diachronic Emergence of Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Internal Motivation or Contact-Induced Change?” Unpublished Comprehensive Paper. University of Pittsburgh, PA
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T2)

Tse, Holman (2005) “The Phonetics of VOT and Tone Interaction in Cantonese” Unpublished MA Thesis, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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T1)

Tse, Holman (2003) “Constructing the Chinese Language: Linguistic Ideology, Culture, and Nation-State Politics” Unpublished BA Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
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Other Unpublished Manuscripts

U2)

Tse, Holman (2013) “Voiced Stops in Jamaican Creole”, Unpublished manuscript, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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U1)

Tse, Holman (2012) “Lexical Tone Effects on Voice Onset Time in Cantonese”, Unpublished manuscript, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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