Prosodic focus marking in Bai

Liu, Zenghui; Chen, Aoju; Van de Velde, Hans

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Prosodic focus marking in Bai

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Chen, Aoju
Psychology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University;

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Liu, Z., Chen, A., & Van de Velde, H. (2014). Prosodic focus marking in Bai. In N., Campbell, D., Gibbon, & D., Hirst (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014 (pp. 628-631).

引用: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002B-7AC8-2

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This study investigates prosodic marking of focus in Bai, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Southwest of China, by adopting a semi-spontaneous experimental approach. Our data show that Bai speakers increase the duration of the focused constituent and reduce the duration of the post-focus constituent to encode focus. However, duration is not used in Bai to distinguish focus types differing in size and contrastivity. Further, pitch plays no role in signaling focus and differentiating focus types. The results thus suggest that Bai uses prosody to mark focus, but to a lesser extent, compared to Mandarin Chinese, with which Bai has been in close contact for centuries, and Cantonese, to which Bai is similar in the tonal system, although Bai is similar to Cantonese in its reliance on duration in prosodic focus marking.