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Is Mandarin Chinese a Truth-Based Language? Rejecting Responses to Negative Assertions and Questions
2016
Frontiers in Psychology
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Eight native speakers of MC participated in an oral Discourse Completion Task that elicited rejecting responses to negative assertions/questions and broad focus statements (control condition). ...
Results show that MC speakers convey reject by relying on a combination of lexico-syntactic strategies (e.g., negative particles such as bù, méi(yǒ u), and positive sentences) together with prosodic (e.g ...
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS FL ran the DCT production experiment with native speakers of Mandarine Chinese and is responsible for the descriptive analysis of the materials. ...
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01967
pmid:28066292
pmcid:PMC5167746
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Phonological influences on the realization of final lowering evidence from dialogue Chinese Mandarin
2014
2014 17th Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA)
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the realization of final lowering in Chinese Mandarin. ...
The results show that: I) The bearing unit of final lowering in Chinese is the last prosodic word in the utterance, regardless of its length, rather than a fixed duration range in a physiological way. ...
the prosodic structure of Chinese Mandarin. ...
doi:10.1109/icsda.2014.7051425
dblp:conf/ococosda/LaiXLCLT14
fatcat:jw6ejtmtzjegbmltlf2kj6njsu
A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity
2005
Language in society
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Because of the nature of their work, professionals in foreign businesses have more opportunities to interact with non-mainland Mandarin speakers who use the full tone variant. ...
that deals with non-mainland Chinese. ...
doi:10.1017/s0047404505050153
fatcat:fzurrrhbsve6jhvcuetaqkc5zy
Hierarchical stress modeling and generation in mandarin for expressive Text-to-Speech
2015
Speech Communication
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The F-score of two-level stress predictions are 73.3% and 78.7%, respectively, which are satisfactory compared to other prosody predictions. ...
The top level emphasizes stressed syllables, while the bottom level focuses on unstressed syllables for the first time due to its importance in both naturalness and expressiveness of synthetic speech. ...
As introduced above, the whole corpus contains 6000 sentences (about 34500 prosodic words and 72900 syllables) which are pronounced by a professional female speaker. ...
doi:10.1016/j.specom.2015.05.003
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Prosody in context: a review
2014
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
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Acoustic correlates of prosody cue this rich contextual information, but interpreting prosodic cues in terms of the lexical, syntactic, and discourse information they encode also requires recognizing prosodic ...
perception that is robust to variation in prosodic form. when they occur at fixed locations in prosodic structure, such as the beginning or end of a prosodic word or phrase (Section 3). ...
For an overview of downstep in lexical tone systems and acoustic evidence for its interaction with phrase-and discourse-level prosody in Mandarin Chinese see Wang & Xu (2011) . ...
doi:10.1080/23273798.2014.963130
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Using the ToBI transcription to record the intonation of Slovene
2012
Linguistica
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Due to its simplicity and flexibility, the system soon began to be used for the prosodic annotation of other variants of English and many other languages, as well as in different non-linguistic fields, ...
The paper presents ToBI, a transcription method for prosodic annotation. ...
for Chinese dialect Cantonese, Pan Mandarin-ToBI for Pan-Mandarin, P-ToBI for Portuguese. ...
doi:10.4312/linguistica.52.1.169-186
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Unsupervised joint prosody labeling and modeling for Mandarin speech
2009
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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Two types of prosodic tags are determined by four prosodic models designed to illustrate the hierarchy of Mandarin prosody: the break of a syllable juncture to demarcate prosodic constituents and the prosodic ...
Experimental results showed that the estimated parameters of the four prosodic models were able to explore and describe the structures and patterns of Mandarin prosody. ...
[1] [2] [3] On the other hand, the prosodic structure of Mandarin Chinese also parses continuous speech into different prosodic constituents by breaks that reflect different levels of Chinese linguistic ...
doi:10.1121/1.3056559
pmid:19206890
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Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions
2005
Speech Communication
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The values of the melodic primitives are specified by a set of encoding schemes each associated with a particular communicative function. ...
Communicative meanings, as I will argue, are conveyed through a set of separate functions which are realized by an articulatory system that has various biophysical properties. ...
ACKNOWLEGEMENT This work is supported in part by NIH Grant DC03902. ...
doi:10.1016/j.specom.2005.02.014
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The meaning of zehu in spoken Israeli Hebrew:
2019
Skandinaviske Sprogstudier
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In light of zehu's morphological makeup – a fusion of the sgm demonstrative ze 'this' and the 3sgm pronoun hu 'he' – the interjectional use is suggested to have originated in the grammaticalization of ...
This paper focuses on a particular use of the item zehu 'that's it' in spoken Israeli Hebrew, in which it functions as a secondary interjection that conveys the meanings of "completion" and "restriction ...
, ' to borrow a term used by Wang & Cao (2014) in their description of a group of demonstratives with interjectional functions that are used in several dialects of Mandarin Chinese. ...
doi:10.7146/sss.v10i1.114675
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Language learning
2007
Language Teaching
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We compared Englishand Mandarin Chinese-speaking 3-and 4-year-old children and adults' attention to shape versus material in a labeling and non-labeling task. ...
On the non-labeling task, 4-year-old and adult Chinese speakers attended to material, whereas younger Chinese speakers attended to shape; English speakers of all ages attended to shape, with 4-year-olds ...
doi:10.1017/s0261444807224280
fatcat:igz24bnowbf5jjeiblk6aup3fu
Some thoughts on the contrastive analysis of features in second language acquisition
2009
Second Language Research
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I illustrate the nature of the problem by comparing the assembly and expression of features involved in plural-marking in English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and situate this comparison with respect ...
In L2 acquisition, of course, learners arguably do start off with a 'predefined set' of functional categories, i.e. those of the L1, as touched on in the following section. ...
minimalist syntax with me. ...
doi:10.1177/0267658308100283
fatcat:iqpe6xn3ovbjtc5cckkvfiurhm
Applied linguistics
2006
Language Teaching
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The study analyzes the prosodic forms produced by Spanish learners of English and compares it to the prosody of English native speakers in order to interpret the pragmatic meaning expressed in the conversation ...
High-level non-native speakers of German differ significantly from native speakers in both types of tasks. The differences are clearly not the result of transfer. ...
Experiment 3 tested native English speakers with the words in sentence context and showed a null result comparable to the high-proficiency group. ...
doi:10.1017/s0261444806283708
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Language learning
2006
Language Teaching
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The study analyzes the prosodic forms produced by Spanish learners of English and compares it to the prosody of English native speakers in order to interpret the pragmatic meaning expressed in the conversation ...
High-level non-native speakers of German differ significantly from native speakers in both types of tasks. The differences are clearly not the result of transfer. ...
Experiment 3 tested native English speakers with the words in sentence context and showed a null result comparable to the high-proficiency group. ...
doi:10.1017/s026144480622370x
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Neurolinguistics
2006
Language Teaching
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The study analyzes the prosodic forms produced by Spanish learners of English and compares it to the prosody of English native speakers in order to interpret the pragmatic meaning expressed in the conversation ...
High-level non-native speakers of German differ significantly from native speakers in both types of tasks. The differences are clearly not the result of transfer. ...
Experiment 3 tested native English speakers with the words in sentence context and showed a null result comparable to the high-proficiency group. ...
doi:10.1017/s0261444806303709
fatcat:uiutxlhivzhphkdymzzhmtd5ii
Language testing
2006
Language Teaching
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The study analyzes the prosodic forms produced by Spanish learners of English and compares it to the prosody of English native speakers in order to interpret the pragmatic meaning expressed in the conversation ...
High-level non-native speakers of German differ significantly from native speakers in both types of tasks. The differences are clearly not the result of transfer. ...
Experiment 3 tested native English speakers with the words in sentence context and showed a null result comparable to the high-proficiency group. ...
doi:10.1017/s0261444806243702
fatcat:5nfkjhrkbzhztkdf3dlg354wwi
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