Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese
In most of the world's languages, one can transform a statement into a question by raising the pitch at the end. This transformation is dubious in tone languages, as it could transform one lexical item into another. * How does one ask question in a tone language? * Is there is a question phras...
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| description | In most of the world's languages, one can transform a statement into a question by raising the pitch at the end. This transformation is dubious in tone languages, as it could transform one lexical item into another. * How does one ask question in a tone language? * Is there is a question phrase curve? * Is there a question boundary tone? We build and train models of Mandarin Chinese intonation to answer these question. The resulting models have RMS errors of 10 Hz, or 1 semitone. We find that questions are marked by: * More careful intonation, and a greater range of speech fundamental frequency at the end of the sentence. * A slightly raised, but otherwise unremarkable, phrase curve. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:23282776-364f-4916-8908-399c930dfd8f2022-03-26T11:42:46ZComparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in ChineseConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:23282776-364f-4916-8908-399c930dfd8fChineseComputational LinguisticsPhoneticsLinguisticsEnglishOxford University Research Archive - Valet2002Yuan, JShih, CKochanski, GIn most of the world's languages, one can transform a statement into a question by raising the pitch at the end. This transformation is dubious in tone languages, as it could transform one lexical item into another. * How does one ask question in a tone language? * Is there is a question phrase curve? * Is there a question boundary tone? We build and train models of Mandarin Chinese intonation to answer these question. The resulting models have RMS errors of 10 Hz, or 1 semitone. We find that questions are marked by: * More careful intonation, and a greater range of speech fundamental frequency at the end of the sentence. * A slightly raised, but otherwise unremarkable, phrase curve. |
| spellingShingle | Chinese Computational Linguistics Phonetics Linguistics Yuan, J Shih, C Kochanski, G Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese |
| title | Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese |
| title_full | Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese |
| title_fullStr | Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese |
| title_short | Comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese |
| title_sort | comparison of declarative and interrogative intonation in chinese |
| topic | Chinese Computational Linguistics Phonetics Linguistics |
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