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Effects of focus on duration and intensity in Chongming Chinese
Author(s)
Date Issued
2019
ISBN
978-0-646-80069-1
Citation
Yang, Y., Chen, S., & Li, K. (2019). Effects of focus on duration and intensity in Chongming Chinese. In Calhoun, S., Escudero, P., Tabain, M., & Warren, P. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 19th international congress of phonetic sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019, Melbourne, Australia (pp. 3578-3582).
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Prosodic focus is generally realised by expanded pitch range, lengthened duration and increased
intensity on the focused components, while the postfocus components may be associated with a
compressed pitch range and intensity, which is referred to as post-focus compression (PFC).
However, controversy surrounds whether PFC exists cross-linguistically, and detailed studies on how
focus influences duration and intensity are scarce. This study aims to contribute novel data to the
prosodic typology literature by examining the effects of focus on duration and intensity in Chongming
Chinese (CC). Twenty target words were embedded under different focus conditions, and the production
data were submitted for linear-mixed effects models. Our results showed focus-induced change of duration and intensity (i.e., lengthened duration and a larger intensity range under focus) as well as PFC of duration and intensity range in CC.
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