A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus

Yong Cheol Lee; Bei Wang; Sisi Chen; Martine Adda-Decker; Angelique Amelot; Satoshi Nambu; Mark Liberman

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178873

A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus

Yong Cheol Lee, Bei Wang, Sisi Chen, Martine Adda-Decker, Angelique Amelot, Satoshi Nambu, Mark Liberman

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Abstract

prosodic focus, using a paradigm based on digit strings, in which the same material and discourse contexts can be used in different languages. We found a striking difference between languages like English and Mandarin Chinese, where prosodic focus is clearly marked in production and accurately recognized in perception, and languages like Korean, where prosodic focus is neither clearly marked in production nor accurately recognized in perception. We also present comparable production data for Suzhou Wu, Japanese, and French.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	4754-4758
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467369978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178873
Publication status	Published - 4 Aug 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 19 Apr 2014 → 24 Apr 2014

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Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume	2015-August
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149

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Conference	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	19/04/14 → 24/04/14

Keywords

Focus
prosody
typology

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Lee, Y. C., Wang, B., Chen, S., Adda-Decker, M., Amelot, A., Nambu, S., & Liberman, M. (2015). A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 4754-4758). Article 7178873 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-August). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178873

Lee, Yong Cheol ; Wang, Bei ; Chen, Sisi et al. / A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. pp. 4754-4758 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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Lee, YC, Wang, B, Chen, S, Adda-Decker, M, Amelot, A, Nambu, S & Liberman, M 2015, A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus. in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings., 7178873, ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, vol. 2015-August, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 4754-4758, 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 19/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178873

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