Quantitative analysis of preboundary lengthening in Cantonese

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1、QuantitativeanalysisofpreboundarylengtheninginCantoneseIvanChowTheoreticalandAppliedLinguisticsLaboratoryTheUniversityofWesternOntarioichow3@uwo.camarkers(e.g.pitchreset,preboundarylengtheningandAbstractpauses)arepresentatboundariesofdifferentstrengths;theInacorpusstudyusingeightpairsofsyntactic

2、allyambiguousamplitudeofprosodicboundarymarkersvariesdependingonsentences,weconductedacousticandquantitativeanalysesofthestrengthoftheboundaries.theprosodicpatternsusedbysevennativespeakersoftheAlthoughbothMandarinandCantoneseareChineseHongKongvarietyofCantonesetodividethesesentencesintolanguage

3、sandpresentnumeroussimilaritiesinpronunciation,prosodicwords—aphenomenonreferredtoas“prosodicthecomplexityofCantoneselexicaltones(bothmelodicallychunking”.Althoughpauses,pitchresetandpreboundaryandrhythmically;seesection2foradetaileddiscussionofthelengtheningwereanalyzed,inthisarticleweconcentra

4、teonCantoneselexicaltonesystem)makesthestudyofprosodicpresentingresultsfromtheanalysisofpreboundarychunkinginCantoneseespeciallychallenging.Whilemanylengthening.UsingtestsentencepairsconsistingofidenticalstudiesonMandarinprosodicchunkinghavebeenpublishedseriesofwordswithtwopossibleprosodicsubdiv

5、isions,we(e.g.[8],[9],[10],etc.),onlyafewhavebeenconductedonmeasurethepreboundarysyllableswithinthesentence,andCantoneseprosodicchunkingatthispoint.Inapilotstudy,compareittothesamesyllablesinthenon-boundarypositionChow[11]conductedanacousticanalysisoftherecordingsofthecorrespondingsentence.Resul

6、tsindicatethatthefromthreenativespeakersoftheHongKongvarietyofpresence/absenceofafollowingprosodicboundaryishighlyCantonese.Preboundarylengtheningwasfoundtobeasignificantinthemeasureoflengthening,thusconfirmingprominentmarkerofprosodicwordboundaries.However,thepreboundarylengtheningasaprominentd

7、eviceinmarkingfrequencyandamplitudeofpreboundarylengtheningseemtoprosodicwordboundariesinCantonese.Moreover,thevarysignificantlybetweenspeakers,whichpointstothefactpresenceofapauseattheprosodicwordboundaryalsothatalarger-sca