A Study on the Pitch Range in the Context of Downstep in Chinese

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  • Maolin Wang
  • Guangling Zi
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In this study, the realization of pitch range of tones in the context of downstep in Chinese is analyzed. The test sentences are composed of „High + Low + High + Low‟ sequences, and it is found that, compared to utterance with 2 HL sequences, the overall pitch ranges of longer utterances are great. The pitch range of the last HL sequence is the greatest, and that of the first HL sequence is the second greatest, with that near the middle of the utterance to be the least great. The pitch range of the utterance initial HL sequence of shorter utterance tends to be greater than that of longer ones, and those of the final HL sequences of long and short utterances approach a constant value.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013