TY - GEN
T1 - Prosodic encoding of topic and focus in mandarin
AU - Wang, Bei
AU - Xu, Yi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2006 Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In this study, we investigate whether and how focus and topic can be separately encoded in Mandarin. A total of 60 sentences with three lengths and five tone combinations were recorded in four topic-focus conditions: initial focus, new topic, implicit topic and given topic, by six speakers. The results of acoustic analysis show that new topic is encoded with a raised pitch range on the initial word. Focus, in contrast, is encoded with an expanded pitch range on the focused word and a suppressed pitch range on the subsequent words.
AB - In this study, we investigate whether and how focus and topic can be separately encoded in Mandarin. A total of 60 sentences with three lengths and five tone combinations were recorded in four topic-focus conditions: initial focus, new topic, implicit topic and given topic, by six speakers. The results of acoustic analysis show that new topic is encoded with a raised pitch range on the initial word. Focus, in contrast, is encoded with an expanded pitch range on the focused word and a suppressed pitch range on the subsequent words.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089854161
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
BT - 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody 2006
A2 - Hoffmann, R.
A2 - Mixdorff, H.
PB - International Speech Communications Association
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2006
Y2 - 2 May 2006 through 5 May 2006
ER -