WebbUnderstanding Prosodic Focus Marking in Mandarin Chinese: Data from Children and Adults This study investigated whether Mandarin speakers interpret prosodic information as focus markers in a sentence-picture verification task. WebbPurpose: The study aimed to examine whether oral reading prosody--the use of acoustic features (e.g., pitch and duration variations) when reading passages aloud--predicts reading fluency and comprehension abilities. Method: We measured vocabulary, syntax, word reading, reading fluency (including rate and accuracy), reading comprehension (in …
The prosody of Mandarin Chinese (1990 edition) Open Library
WebbLANGUAGE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 3 (1991) of this component. This is achieved through a struction, and a relationship between cases of polysemy and dead metaphors is … Webb9 nov. 2024 · "Revised version of the chapter 'Tone, stress, and intonation' in my Ph. D. dissertation Contrastive study of Mandarin Chinese and French interrogative intonologies : a contribution to the prosody of Chinese"--Pref. Series University of California publications in linguistics ;, v. 118 Classifications Dewey Decimal Class 495.1/16 Library of Congress church view doncaster
Mandarin vs Cantonese: What’s the Difference? (Comparison Chart)
WebbThis study investigates the speech rhythm of Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin using some recently developed acoustic rhythmic measures. The two languages were compared with four languages in the BonnTempo corpus: German and English (stress-timed) and French and Italian (syllable-timed). Six Cantonese and six Beijing Mandarin native speakers … WebbThis paper argues for the one-to-one syntax-prosody mapping of CP and C0 with novel evidence from right-dislocations (RDs) in Cantonese and Mandarin. From acoustic experimental results, RDs have one intonational phrase (ι-phrase), which is compatible with the well-received monoclausal analysis for Chinese RDs: one CP is mapped to one ι … Webb4 aug. 2024 · Speakers adopt multidimensional acoustic strategies to shape intonation: while maintaining the lexical tones, prosody interacts with the organization imposed by syntax, semantics, and focus. The two varieties of Mandarin differ in the extent to which their prosodic differences represent such syntactic-semantic information. 1. Introduction churchview estate