Paper 3702
On the Prosody of Contrastive Topic and Contrastive Focus in Mandarin Chinese
Hailin Hao, Jeannette Schaeffer, and Marijn van 't Veer
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Hailin Hao, Jeannette Schaeffer, and Marijn van 't Veer
100-110 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Abstract
This study reports experimental data on contrastivity conveyed through prosody in Mandarin Chinese (MC). It is the first study that systematically examines the role of prosody in signaling contrastivity in MC, manifested as Contrastive Topic and Contrastive Focus. We argue that even in a tone language such as MC, contrastivity is marked through pitch range and duration.
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Proceedings of the 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Jiayi Lu, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu, and Boris Harizanov
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edited by Jiayi Lu, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu, and Boris Harizanov
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