A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus

Yong-cheol Lee; Bei Wang; Sisi Chen; Martine Adda-Decker; Angélique Amelot; Satoshi Nambu; Mark Y. Liberman

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A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus

Yong-cheol Lee, Bei Wang, Sisi Chen, Martine Adda-Decker, Angélique Amelot, Satoshi Nambu, Mark Y. Liberman

Abstract

We examined the production and perception of (contrastive) prosodic focus, using a paradigm based on digit strings, in which the same material and discourse contexts can be used in different languages. We found a striking difference between languages like English and Mandarin Chinese, where prosodic focus is clearly marked in production and accurately recognized in perception, and languages like Korean, where prosodic focus is neither clearly marked in production nor accurately recognized in perception. We also present comparable production data for Suzhou Wu, Japanese, and French.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{icassp2015_acrosslinguistic,
  title = {A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus},
  author = {Yong-cheol Lee and Bei Wang and Sisi Chen and Martine Adda-Decker and Angélique Amelot and Satoshi Nambu and Mark Y. Liberman},
  booktitle = {ICASSP 2015},
  year = {2015}
}