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 languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4754-4758
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467369978
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Aug 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Brisbane, Australia
Duration: 19 Apr 201424 Apr 2014

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2015-August
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityBrisbane
Period19/04/1424/04/14

Keywords

  • Focus
  • prosody
  • typology

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