Effects of word order and embedded clause boundary on intonation in Tokyo Japanese
Ishihara, Shinichiro LU
and van de Weijer, Joost
LU
(2024)
Speech Prosody 2024
In Speech Prosody
2024.
p.1220-1224
- Abstract
- This paper reports results of a production experiment in which nine native speakers of Tokyo Japanese read aloud sentences with varied syntactic structures, word orders, and levels of awareness of the syntactic structure. In particular, this study investigates the prosodic realization of embedded clause boundaries and potential effects of word order and readers’ awareness of the syntactic structure on the syntax–prosody mapping.
While the expected effects of lexical pitch accents were detected consistently on f0-rises at the onset of nouns phrases, effects of embedded clause boundary were found at only one of the two expected locations. Word order did not show consistent effects, suggesting that word order alternation within a... (More) - This paper reports results of a production experiment in which nine native speakers of Tokyo Japanese read aloud sentences with varied syntactic structures, word orders, and levels of awareness of the syntactic structure. In particular, this study investigates the prosodic realization of embedded clause boundaries and potential effects of word order and readers’ awareness of the syntactic structure on the syntax–prosody mapping.
While the expected effects of lexical pitch accents were detected consistently on f0-rises at the onset of nouns phrases, effects of embedded clause boundary were found at only one of the two expected locations. Word order did not show consistent effects, suggesting that word order alternation within a clause does not affect the overall prosodic realization of the sentence. The effects of readers’ structural awareness were detected not on f0-rises, but on f0-max at crucial locations. (Less)
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- author
- Ishihara, Shinichiro
LU
and van de Weijer, Joost
LU
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- publishing date
- 2024-07
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- keywords
- intonation, syntax–prosody mapping, word order, embedded clause boundary, sentence parsing, lexical pitch accent, Tokyo Japanese
- host publication
- Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024
- series title
- Speech Prosody
- editor
- Chen, Yiya ; Chen, Aoju and Arvantini, Amalia
- volume
- 2024
- pages
- 5 pages
- publisher
- Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
- conference name
- Speech Prosody 2024
- conference location
- Leiden, Netherlands
- conference dates
- 2024-07-02 - 2024-07-05
- ISSN
- 2333-2042
- DOI
- 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-246
- project
- The phonology of subordinate clauses and syntactic processing in Japanese
- language
- English
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