Intonation in Northern Vietnamese
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Marc Brunelle,
,
Kiều Phương Hạ,
und
Martine Grice,
Abstract
Languages employ a range of different means for realizing communicative functions, including word choice, morpho-syntax and prosody. The relative weight of each of these means varies cross-linguistically. In this paper, we look at the role of intonation in the realization of communicative functions in Northern Vietnamese, a language with a complex lexical tone system. Our results, which are based on systematically controlled data, show that there are a number of acoustic strategies for realizing communicative functions, predominantly based on global f0 and intensity and local sentence-final f0. These strategies are subject to a great degree of speaker variation, although this variation appears to be consistent with intonational universals as reflected in biological codes.
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- Preface and acknowledgements
- Intonation in Northern Vietnamese
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Prelims
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Intonation in Northern Vietnamese
- Tonal coarticulation in Malaysian Hokkien: A typological anomaly?
- Contrasting the high rise and the low rise intonations in a dialect with the Central Franconian tone
- Word-level vs. sentence-level prosody in Koshikijima Japanese
- Prosodic focus with and without post-focus compression: A typological divide within the same language family?
