Hsu Yu-Yin, Xu Anqi
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China.
University College London, London, United
J Acoust Soc Am. 2020 Aug;148(2):EL119. doi: 10.1121/10.0001676.
This paper reports on two speech-production experiments focused on Putonghua and Taiwan Mandarin sentence-final particles and wh-phrases that have interrogative or indefinite readings in three contexts: yes/no questions, wh-questions, and statements. Sentence-final particles were found to influence focus-prosody through right-edge shortening and lowering of F0 and intensity of wh-phrases, thus distinguishing wh-interrogatives from indefinites and questions from statements. 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.
本文报告了两项关于普通话和台湾普通话句末助词以及疑问词短语的言语产生实验，这些疑问词短语在三种语境中具有疑问或不定的语义：是非疑问句、特殊疑问句和陈述句。研究发现，句末助词通过右边缘缩短以及疑问词短语的基频和强度降低来影响焦点韵律，从而区分特殊疑问句和不定指句，以及疑问句和陈述句。说话者采用多维声学策略来塑造语调：在保持词汇调的同时，韵律与句法、语义和焦点所施加的结构相互作用。这两种普通话在其韵律差异所代表的句法 - 语义信息的程度上有所不同。
