Pitch Variation for Chinese Syllables of Different Information Load (Based on Commercial and Social Radio Ads)

IF 0.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI:10.53656/for22.512pitc
S. Androsova, V. Karavaeva, Zianwen Zhang
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F0 is an important cue present in all vocalic segments, a parameter to differentiate between voiced and voiceless consonants, a relative phonological feature of syllable in tonal languages and a crucial feature of intonation. This paper aims to investigate pitch variation patterns in Mandarin Chinese depending on the syllable information load (Factor 1) in one type of discourse – advertising with the subdivision into social and commercial ads (Factor 2) considering gender differences (Factor 3). 1249 syllable tokens were selected for acoustic measurements, each syllable occurring twice – in the informative and uninformative utterance parts. The information load was determined perceptually: the syllable was considered informative when agreed by the minimum of 60% of listeners, other syllables were considered uninformative. Depending on lexical tone (T1 – T4 and T0), the measurements included average pitch values, declination/inclination starting and ending points (mean values). These parameters were used to judge about relevant pitch features – average height and declination/inclination slope. As a result, a consistent parameter increase in commercial ads vs. social ads and on informative syllables vs. uninformative ones was observed for all tones except T0 that showed the opposite trend in expressing information-based partition. Another finding was tone substitution that marked both informative and uninformative parts but was more frequent in the latter. Substitute tone frequency ranks did not depend on any of the three factors except for T0. High predictability of pitch variation patterns make them applicable in teaching Chinese as L2 in terms of speaking and listening for general and specific purposes.
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不同信息负荷下汉语音节的音高变化(以商业和社会广播广告为例)
F0是存在于所有声段中的重要线索,是区分浊音和清音的参数,是声调语言中音节的相对音系特征,也是语调的重要特征。本文旨在研究汉语普通话中音节信息负荷的变化模式(因子1),并考虑性别差异(因子3),将其细分为社会广告和商业广告(因子2)。选取1249个音节符号进行声学测量,每个音节出现两次,分别出现在信息和非信息的话语部分。信息负荷是由感知决定的:当至少60%的听者同意时,这个音节被认为是有信息的,其他音节被认为是没有信息的。根据词汇音调(T1 - T4和T0),测量包括平均音高值,偏斜/倾斜起点和终点(平均值)。这些参数被用来判断相关的俯仰特征——平均高度和赤斜/倾斜斜率。结果,除了T0以外的所有音调在表达信息分割方面呈现相反的趋势,在商业广告与社交广告、信息性音节与非信息性音节中,参数都有一致的增加。另一个发现是语调替换,它同时标记了信息部分和非信息部分,但后者更频繁。除T0外,替代音频率排名不依赖于三个因素中的任何一个。音高变化模式具有较高的可预测性,适用于汉语作为第二语言的口语和听力教学。
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