Focus in production: Tonal shape, intensity and word order
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Focus in production: tonal shape, intensity and word order.
The effect of word order and prosodic focus on the tonal shape and intensity in the production of prosody was studied. The results show that the production of focus in Finnish follows a global pattern with regard to tonal features. The relative pitch height difference between contrasted words is the most important pitch-related factor in signaling narrow prosodic focus. Narrow focus is not loca...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.2424264