NDLI: Dual-focus intonation in Standard Chinese

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Author	Bei Wang Fery, C.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. of Linguistics, Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (Fery, C.) \|\| Inst. of Chinese Minority Language & Classics, Minzu Univ. of China, Beijing, China (Bei Wang)
Abstract	This paper examines prosodic encoding of dual focus in Standard Chinese, that is, a sentence contains two foci. Five speakers read 10 SVO sentences with two lengths (short vs. long) in four focus conditions: initial, final, dual (initial+final) and neutral. Following results were obtained for the dual focus sentences: [1] There was an increase in F0 and word duration in both foci, and this to almost the same degree as their initial and final focus counterparts respectively; [2] The word following the first focus did not differ from its neutral and final counterparts in F0 and duration; [3] No prosodic boundary was inserted after the first focus and the two foci were realized in one intonational phrase. All these results held for both the short and the long sentences. From a theoretical perspective, culminativity (i.e. one metrical prominence per prosodic constituent) is violable in Chinese and focus assignment and phrasing are largely independent of each other.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	106
File Size	1411977
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467382793
DOI	10.1109/ICSDA.2015.7357873
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-10-28
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Radio frequency intonation dual focus Conferences phrasing Auditory system Length measurement Standards Analysis of variance Pragmatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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