Research on the Acoustic Realization of Focus in Mandarin
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The spectral emphasis value and the effect of focus on it for bi-syllabic words are investigated in Mandarin in this paper. It is found that, the spectral emphasis value of the onset is larger than that of the rhyme. The spectral emphasis value of the onset of the first syllable is larger than that of the second under unfocused condition, due to intervocalic voicing. The emphasis degree of the first syllable is larger than that of the second under focused condition, and that of the rhyme is larger than that of the onset.
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