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Dataset of focus prosody in Japanese phone numbers
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Tone and metrical structure in Seoul Korean
In: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL10) ([2018]), S. 281-286
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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Production and Perception of Tone 3 Focus in Mandarin Chinese
Lee, Yong-Cheol; Wang, Ting; Liberman, Mark. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2016
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A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus
In: 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01253243 ; 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015, Brisbane, Australia. pp.4754-4757 (2015)
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Prosodic Focus Within and Across Languages
In: Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations (2015)
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Prosodic Focus Within and Across Languages
In: Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations (2015)
Abstract: The fact that "purely" prosodic marking of focus may be weaker in some languages than in others, and that it varies in certain circumstances even within a single language, has not been commonly recognized. Therefore, this dissertation investigated whether and how purely prosodic marking of focus varies within and across languages. We conducted production and perception experiments using a paradigm of 10-digit phone-number strings in which the same material and discourse contexts were used in different languages. The results demonstrated that prosodic marking of focus varied across languages. Speakers of American English, Mandarin Chinese, and Standard French clearly modulated duration, pitch, and intensity to indicate the position of corrective focus. Listeners of these languages recognized the focus position with high accuracy. Conversely, speakers of Seoul Korean, South Kyungsang Korean, Tokyo Japanese, and Suzhou Wu produced a weak and ambiguous modulation by focus, resulting in a poor identification performance. This dissertation also revealed that prosodic marking of focus varied even within a single language. In Mandarin Chinese, a focused low/dipping tone (tone 3) received a relatively poor identification rate compared to other focused tones (about 77% vs. 91%). This lower identification performance was due to the smaller capacity of tone 3 for pitch range expansion and local dissimilatory effects around tone 3 focus. In Seoul Korean, prosodic marking of focus differed based on the tonal contrast (post-lexical low vs. high tones). The identification rate of high tones was twice as high than that of low tones (about 24% vs. 51%), the reason being that low tones had a smaller capacity for pitch range expansion than high tones. All things considered, this dissertation demonstrates that prosodic focus is not always expressed by concomitant increased duration, pitch, and intensity. Accordingly, "purely" prosodic marking of focus is neither completely universal nor automatic, but rather is expressed through the prosodic structure of each language. Since the striking difference in focus-marking success does not seem to be determined by any previously-described typological feature, this must be regarded as an indicator of a new typological dimension, or as a function of a new typological space.
Keyword: Discourse and Text Linguistics; focus; identification; perception; Phonetics and Phonology; production; prosody; typology
URL: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/1534
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3346&context=edissertations
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Prosodic focus within and across languages
In: Dissertations available from ProQuest (2015)
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Prosody and semantics of the focus particles always and only in Korean: Theoretical implications from a perception experiment
In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2012)
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