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Title: | Interaction of prosody and syntax-semantics in Mandarin wh-indeterminates | Authors: | Hsu, YY Xu, A |
Issue Date: | Aug-2020 | Source: | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Aug. 2020, v. 148, no. 2, p. EL119-EL124 | Abstract: | This paper reports on two speech-production experiments focused on Putonghua and Taiwan Mandarin sentence-final particles and wh-phrases that have interrogative or indefinite readings in three contexts: yes/no questions, wh-questions, and statements. Sentence-final particles were found to influence focus-prosody through right-edge shortening and lowering of F0 and intensity of wh-phrases, thus distinguishing wh-interrogatives from indefinites and questions from statements. Speakers adopt multidimensional acoustic strategies to shape intonation: while maintaining the lexical tones, prosody interacts with the organization imposed by syntax, semantics, and focus. The two varieties of Mandarin differ in the extent to which their prosodic differences represent such syntactic-semantic information. | Publisher: | Acoustical Society of America | Journal: | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | ISSN: | 0001-4966 | EISSN: | 1520-8524 | DOI: | 10.1121/10.0001676 | Rights: | Copyright 2020 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in Yu-Yin Hsu and Anqi Xu, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148, EL119 (2020) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001676 |
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