Durational adjustment under corrective focus in Standard Chinese

Chen, Yiya

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2005.05.002

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“…The pitch correlate of the lexical tone in Mandarin Chinese is not a single point but a pitch contour, which is called pitch register. Previous studies found that, in Mandarin Chinese, focus accent is realized by the expansion of the pitch range of the lexical tone (pitch register) and by the lengthening of the syllable duration (Chen, 2006;Chen and Gussenhoven, 2008;Xu, 1999;Jia et al, 2008Jia et al, , 2006Liu and Xu, 2006;Wang et al, 2002). As to what gave rise to the pitch range expansion, some studies found that, for two-character words, focus accent mainly raises the pitch maximum of H tones and has no significant effect on L tones (Jia et al, 2008(Jia et al, , 2006.…”

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“…In Chinese, the new or focused information is also encoded via accentuation which is mainly realized by the expansion of the pitch range of lexical tone (Chen, 2006;Chen and Gussenhoven, 2008;Xu, 1999;Jia et al, 2008Jia et al, , 2006Liu and Xu, 2006;Wang et al, 2002). Previous psycholinguistic studies on accentuation mainly focused on the correspondence between accentuation and information structure.…”

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How and when predictability interacts with accentuation in temporally selective attention during speech comprehension

Zhao

2014

Neuropsychologia

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How and when predictability interacts with accentuation in temporally selective attention during speech comprehension

Zhao

2014

Neuropsychologia

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“…A number of studies on corrective focus realisation in Mandarin compared correctively-focused words to non-focused (given) words embedded in an utterance that contains some kind of focus, e.g. new-information focus as in (8), such as Chen (2006), or corrective focus as in (9), such as Chen and Gussenhoven (2008). Thus, these studies compared corrective 'mangos' in a context like (7b) to unfocused/presupposed 'mangos' in con texts like (8b) or (9b).…”

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Prosody and information structure in a tone language: an investigation of Mandarin Chinese

Ouyang

Kaiser

2013

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Prosody conveys discourse-level information, but the extent to which prosodic cues distinguish different kinds of information-structural concepts remains unclear. The prosodic encoding of information structure is even more complicated in tone languages, where acoustic cues such as FO, intensity and duration also distinguish lexical items (e.g. Mandarin). Prior work on Mandarin led to divergent findings regarding whether and what prosodic cues mark the distinctions between information-structural types. We conducted a production study on Mandarin to investigate whether (1) the presence/absence of corrective focus and (2) the distinction between new/given information are encoded prosodically. Our results show that correctiveness was reflected in all three acoustic parameters: corrective words had longer durations, larger FO ranges and larger intensity ranges than non-corrective words. The new-given distinction was reflected only in lengthening and F0 range expansion, and only in the absence of correction (correctiveness-by-givenness interaction). This suggests that new information is encoded differently from corrective focus in Mandarin: only corrective focus is associated with intensity range expansion. Our results provide further evidence for the multi-functionality of acoustic-prosodic dimensions. Even in a language with lexical tones, which differ in FO, intensity and duration, all these dimensions also encode information structure. Furthermore, not only can prosodic cues indicate discourse importance, they also distinguish different types of information structure in Mandarin. Our findings highlight the fine-grained ability of the language production system to utilise different aspects of acoustic dimensions with great efficiency.

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“…There are multiple ways of signalling narrow focus prosodically including, for example, an increase in segmental duration or F 0 span (e.g., Xu, 1999;Chen, 2006 for Standard Chinese; Xu & Xu, 2005 Lee & Xu, 2012 for Japanese).…”

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Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Seoul Korean

Nolan

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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This paper explores prosodic marking of narrow (corrective) focus in Seoul Korean. Korean lacks lexical stress and it has a phonologized association between the Accentual Phrase (AP) initial segment and intonation. In the experiment, 4 speakers read sentences including a two-item list which were designed to elicit either an L or H AP-initial tone. The durational variations, the pitch events at prosodic boundaries, and F 0 span in 32 sentences read neutrally and 64 sentences read with one of the items under focus were analyzed. The results show that the focused constituent consistently initiates a new prosodic phrase. In comparison to the neutrally spoken or defocused counterpart, the focused constituent was more likely to be realized as an Intonational Phrase (IP) in some contexts. Bitonal IP boundary tones were more likely to occur under focus than monotonal tones. In addition, in focused constituents, durational expansion particularly at the phrase-edges, expansion in F 0 span, and raising of the phrase-initial pitch were observed. On the other hand, defocused constituents were not phonetically reduced compared to the neutral counterparts. The results imply that the phonetic cues spreading over the focused constituent complement the exaggerated prosodic boundaries.

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Durational adjustment under corrective focus in Standard Chinese

Cited by 56 publications

References 14 publications

How and when predictability interacts with accentuation in temporally selective attention during speech comprehension

How and when predictability interacts with accentuation in temporally selective attention during speech comprehension

Prosody and information structure in a tone language: an investigation of Mandarin Chinese

Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Seoul Korean

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