Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of Chinese Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI:10.1075/IJCHL.18004.YAN
Yang Yang, Stella Gryllia, Leticia Pablos, L. Cheng
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Mandarin wh-words such as shénme are wh-indeterminates, which can have interrogative interpretations (‘what’) or non-interrogative interpretations (i.e., ‘something’), depending on the context and licensors. For example, when diǎnr (‘a little’) appears right in front of a wh-word, the string can have either a wh-question or a declarative interpretation (henceforth, wh-declarative). Yang (2018) carried out a production study and the results showed that wh-questions and wh-declaratives have different prosodic properties. To investigate whether and when listeners make use of prosody to anticipate the clause type (i.e., question vs. declarative), we conducted a sentence perception study and an audio-gating experiment. Results of the perception study and the gating experiment show that (1) Participants can make use of prosody to differentiate the two clause types; (2) Starting from the onset of the first word of the target sentence (wh-question/wh-declarative), participants already demonstrate a preference for the clause type that was intended by the speaker. The current study also sheds light on the clausal typing mechanism in Mandarin (e.g., how to mark a clause as a wh-question) by providing evidence of the role of prosody in marking clause types in Mandarin.
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基于韵律的普通话从句类型预期
普通话wh词,如shénme,是wh不确定词,根据上下文和许可方的不同,可以有疑问词解释(“hat”)或非疑问词解释。例如,当diānr(“little”)出现在一个wh词的正前方时,该字符串可以有wh疑问或声明性解释(此后称为wh declarative)。杨(2018)进行了一项生产性研究,结果表明,wh疑问句和wh宣告词具有不同的韵律性质。为了研究听众是否以及何时利用韵律来预测从句类型(即疑问句与陈述句),我们进行了一项句子感知研究和一项音频门控实验。感知研究和门控实验的结果表明:(1)参与者可以利用韵律来区分两种从句类型;(2) 从目标句的第一个单词开始(wh疑问句/wh陈述句),参与者已经表现出对说话者想要的从句类型的偏好。本研究还通过提供韵律在标记普通话从句类型中的作用的证据,揭示了普通话中的从句类型机制(例如,如何将从句标记为wh问题)。
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