Pitch range control of Japanese boundary pitch movements
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چکیده
Boundary pitch movements (BPMs) are tones that occur at the end of prosodic phrases in Japanese and contribute to the pragmatic interpretation of certain utterance such as questioning, continuation, and emphasis. This paper investigates pitch range control of BPMs, which has received little attention in previous studies. Specifically, it examines whether downstep is observed in BPMs by analyzing large-scale Japanese spontaneous monologues. The results reveal that ordinal downstep was not found in BPMs, and that pitch range control of BPMs differs across their types. The results suggest that currently accepted frameworks of Japanese intonation cannot deal with pitch range control of BPMs.
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