An Acoustic Phonetic Study of the Intonation of Sentence-Final Particles in Hong Kong Cantonese
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Cantonese is rich in sentence-final particles (SFPs), morphemes serving to show various linguistic or attitudinal meanings. The acoustic manifestations of these SFPs are not yet clear. This paper presents detailed analyses of the fundamental frequency tracings, final F0, final velocity and duration of ten SFPs in Hong Kong Cantonese. The results show that most of these SFPs are very similar to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Social Science
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1911-2025,1911-2017
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v4n2p23