Effects of neighboring creaky tone on low tone of Burmese in post-lexical context

In this paper, I investigated the behaviors of neighboring creaky tone of Burmese, in relation to the low tone which has been regarded as the one likely to have effects from the other tones. As high tone of Burmese has already been observed as having a carry-over effect into a following low or high tone, I claim that the high-pitched creaky tone can affect a following low tone. Therefore, through measurements of F0 with sentences uttered by four native speakers, I analyzed preceding and following effects of creaky tone on low tone.