Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICSDA.2012.6422451
