A Study on the Extent of Downstep for High-Low Tones in Chinese

摘要：

　　In this study,the downstep principle in Chinese tone production is analyzed,and it is found that downstep exists for high (H) tones.They always drop to a lower scale compared to the forgoing ones.The degree of the first downstep is always larger than the following ones,but there are no differences in the degrees of downsteps for the later HL sequences.The speaker does not only raise the initial H tone when there are more downsteps,but also depress the final H tone.

关键词： Downstep Tone Pitch

作者: Maolin Wang Hua Wu Guangling Zi Ziyu Xiong

作者单位: College of Chinese Language and Culture, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Institute of Linguistics, Social Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2013 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering(2013年计算科学与工程国际学术研讨会)

会议地点: 青岛

会议语种:英文

页码: 287-293

在线出版日期: 2013-07-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）