The Prosody of Mandarin ChineseUniversity of California Press, 1 ene 1990 - 95 páginas Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to interrogative; therefore, two baselines and two intonation layers must be reckoned with. Sentence intonation affects the tonal values and the tonal shapes of intrinsic lexical tones, though not beyond recognition. Tonal changes prove to be closely related to sentence intonation, which is superimposed simultaneously onto the utterance as a whole. The author's findings support the position of the movability of the intonation baseline and rectify some widely spread traditional claims concerning Mandarin Chinese prosody. |
Términos y frases comunes
2nd tone 3rd tone 4th tone acoustic Average Fo values Beijing Bolinger Chao clean the car contrastive stress downdrift duration Dwight Bolinger ending point falling ending falling tone falling-rising Fo differences four citation tones fundamental frequency háishì higher highest peak Hz in Group indentured laborer clean interrogative intonation intonation environment intonation patterns Lão shouzhăng lexical tones mãi măi jiù Mandarin Chinese Mean Fo values morpheme msec neutral tone normal stress officer buy sake old senior officer particle questions passerby take pictures phonological pitch contour pitch curve pitch level pitch movement preceding Tone prosodic prosody question intonation Red Nose rising ending rising tone senior officer buy sentence intonation sentence-initial Shen shénmo shì statement intonation suprasegmental syllable nucleus tonal change tonal pattern tonal value Tone 3 preceding tone and intonation tone contours tone language tone mapping tone sandhi tone shape Tseng unmarked questions unstressed utterance values in Hz