Dr. YANG YikeChen, SiSiChen2024-03-222024-03-222020Yang, Y., & Chen, S. (2020). Individual differences in Mandarin focus production. In ExLing (Ed.). ExLing 2020: Proceedings of 11th international conference of experimental linguistics, 12-14 October 2020, Athens, Greece. 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, Athens, Greece (pp. 229-232).https://exlingsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/proceedings/exling-2020/11_0057_000472.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/9135This paper investigated whether and how individual speakers of Mandarin Chinese (Mandarin) mark prosodic focus (broad focus vs verb focus) differently in their production, and tested focus effects on mean F0, duration and intensity. The findings indicated the role of the three acoustic cues in Mandarin focus marking at both the group and individual levels. Meanwhile, the individual data showed great variations among speakers in terms of the extent to which the cues were employed. It is proposed that the dynamics of acoustic cues should be considered in future studies and caution should be taken when selecting stimuli for focus perception studies.enIndividual DifferencesSpeech ProductionProsodyFocusMandarinConference Paper