Effects of topic structure and syntax on boundary pitch variations in standard Chinese

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 543-546

  Yang, Xiaohong ^a   Yang, Yufang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Intonation; Melody; Rhythm; Speech prosody

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; INTONATION; MELODY; RHYTHM; SPEECH PROSODY; STANDARD CHINESE; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; TOPIC STRUCTURES;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84888242582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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