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Morpheme-like prosodic functions: evidence from acoustic analysis and computational modeling
Fang Liu, Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on, Alan C. L. Yu
Journal of Speech Sciences · 3(1), 85-140 · 2013
What the paper examines
This paper examines how patterns of prosody carry communicative meanings such as focus and sentence modality. It compares prosodic functions with lexical morphemes, drawing on earlier work, production experiments and computational modelling.
Reading it in context
The comparison is a theoretical account of meaning and sound. Individual acoustic features need context, and the paper discusses language-specific realizations rather than a universal display that directly reads a speaker’s intention.
A question to read with
What evidence distinguishes a meaningful combination of features from one acoustic cue?
Citation
Fang Liu, Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on, Alan C. L. Yu (2013). Morpheme-like prosodic functions: evidence from acoustic analysis and computational modeling. Journal of Speech Sciences, 3(1), 85-140. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v3i1.15041
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