Finding the Effects of Focus on the Duration in Mandarin Speech (음성학 - 중국어에 관련)

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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Subjects
2.2 Material
2.3 Recording
3. Results and analysis
3.1 Effects of focus on postfocus duration - focus on word1
3.2 Effects of focus on both prefocus and postfocus durations - focus on word2
3.3 Effects of focus on prefocus duration - focus on word3
4. Discussion
References

본문내용

The present study discusses the effects of focus on the duration of prefocus and postfocus through the f0 contours in short Mandarin sentences. This was examined through the observation of the change of the duration with and without focus, or different focus location produced in Mandarin short speeches. Referring to some early researches on the effects of focus in Chinese speeches and the characteristic of focus in English intonation, this study emphasized how prefocus and postfocus duration changes with different focus locations by comparing with neutral focus sentences. In order to show obvious results, all the short sentences in the experiment consisted of five words, the first word consisted of two syllables, the second word only has one syllable, and the third word consisted of two syllables. All of these sentences begin with an initial H tone and ended with H tone. Between each two H tones there were another varing tones. The interval varing tones between two H tones shown as the same, so we get four patterns as HHHHH, HRHRH, HLHLH, HFHFH.

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