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Mechanisms of Question Intonation in Mandarin
This study investigates mechanisms of question intonation in Mandarin Chinese. Three mechanisms of question intonation have been proposed: an overall higher phrase curve, higher strengths of sentence final tones, and a tone-dependent mechanism that flattens the falling slope of the final falling tone and steepens the rising slope of the final rising tone. The phrase curve and strength mechanism...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.2027476