supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60775026)
Relying on a corpus of thirty narrative discourses, the roles of pitch and duration of prosodic words in sentence accent were studied in discourse context. At first, the pitch was normalized. Then according to the pit...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60775026)
A phonetic experiment was conducted to investigate whether the acoustic features of discourse focus were subjected to the influence of discourse hierarchy. Six speakers were instructed to read aloud 32 groups of exper...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60775026).
The aim of designing sentences with special tone combinations is to investigate the declination tendency of intonation in Chinese Putonghua.The result shows that baselines of prosodic phrases(PP),as the basic declin...