The effect of focus on stressed and unstressed syllables in Chinese: The variation of intensity

Author

Maolin Wang ; Xuejiao Huang ; Xiaoting Yu ; Ziyu Xiong

Author_Institution

Coll. of Chinese Language & Culture, Jinan Univ., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

40

Abstract

In this paper, the average intensity and the effect of focus and stress on it for disyllabic words in Chinese is analyzed. The key words in the experiment are 20 verbs, occurring in sentence medial position, and the subjects are eight native speakers of standard Chinese. Average intensity is analyzed, and results show that the intensity of the rhyme is greater than that of the onset. The effect of focus on the intensity of the rhyme is greater than that of the onset, and the effect of focus on the intensity of the rhyme of the stressed syllable is the greatest.

Keywords

natural language processing; word processing; Chinese language; disyllabic words; focus condition; onset intensity analysis; rhyme intensity analysis; sentence medial position; stress condition; stressed syllables; unstressed syllables; verbs; Acoustics; Analysis of variance; Reliability; Speech; Standards; Stress; Stress measurement; Speech; focus; intensity; stress;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Speech Database and Assessments (Oriental COCOSDA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2811-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2812-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSDA.2012.6422451

Filename

6422451