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ILLOCUTIONS AND ATTITUDES Prosodic cross-linguistic perception of social affects in Mandarin Chinese by native, French and Vietnamese listeners
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Aubergé, Véronique Rilliard, Albert Wen-Tao, Gu |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Social affects play an important role in the face-to-face interaction and are implied in the realization of speech acts. The prosody is a main vector of social affects and its cross-language variability is a challenge for language description as well as for foreign language teaching. The present work aims at examining the perception of Chinese social affects in an intra-cultural perceptual experiment and the influences of tones on the perception of these social affects in another inter-cultural perceptual experiment. A speech corpus was designed with the variation of length, tone location and syntactic structures of utterances, and has been incorporated with 19 social affects. For each experiment, a specific sub-corpus was selected. The tests results show that the social affects were globally recognized over chance level by native and non-native listeners; “declaration” is the attitude which attracted the most confusions; all subject groups separated the 19 Chinese social affects in two subsets: a subset of “assertive” attitudes (represented by “declaration”) and a subset of “interrogative” attitudes (represented by “question” and “doubt”); more similarities were found between French and Vietnamese listeners in inter-cultural perception experiment. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.fupress.com/archivio/pdf/2417_5899.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
