TY - GEN
T1 - Prosodic realization of focus in statement and question in Tibetan (Lhasa Dialect)
AU - Zhang, Xiaxia
AU - Wang, Bei
AU - Wu, Qian
AU - Xu, Yi
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The present study investigated prosodic realization of foeus in statement and yes/no question in Tibetan (Lhasa dialect). Two target sentences were uttered by 8 speakers in both statement and yes/no question under four focus conditions, initial, medial, final and neutral focus. Systematic acoustic analysis showed that: (1) On-focus words exhibited significant F0 rising, pitch range expansion, and duration lengthening, while pitch range of pre-focus words remained largely intact. Importantly, focus led to post-focus F0 lowering and compression. Focus was realized the same way in both statement and question. (2) Interrogative intonation had higher F0 than statement in unfocused words. In general, the prosodie realization of focus in Tibetan was comparable to English and Beijing Mandarin. The distribution and origin of post-focus compression (PFC) was also discussed.
AB - The present study investigated prosodic realization of foeus in statement and yes/no question in Tibetan (Lhasa dialect). Two target sentences were uttered by 8 speakers in both statement and yes/no question under four focus conditions, initial, medial, final and neutral focus. Systematic acoustic analysis showed that: (1) On-focus words exhibited significant F0 rising, pitch range expansion, and duration lengthening, while pitch range of pre-focus words remained largely intact. Importantly, focus led to post-focus F0 lowering and compression. Focus was realized the same way in both statement and question. (2) Interrogative intonation had higher F0 than statement in unfocused words. In general, the prosodie realization of focus in Tibetan was comparable to English and Beijing Mandarin. The distribution and origin of post-focus compression (PFC) was also discussed.
KW - Focus
KW - PFC
KW - Post-focus compression
KW - Tibetan
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878401764&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878401764
SN - 9781622767595
T3 - 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
SP - 666
EP - 669
BT - 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
T2 - 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
Y2 - 9 September 2012 through 13 September 2012
ER -