Prosodic Realization of Rhetorical Structure in Chinese Discourse

	Prosodic Realization of Rhetorical Structure in Chinese Discourse
	Yang, Xiaohong 1,2; Yang, Yufang1
刊名	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING
	2012-05-01
卷号	20 期号:4 页码:1196-1206
关键词	Speech analysis speech processing
ISSN号	1558-7916
通讯作者	Yang, XH (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
产权排序	1
英文摘要	The research reported in this paper is an acoustic experiment attempting to elucidate the relationship between prosodic variation and rhetorical structure in discourse. Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory, facets of discourse structure such as hierarchy, relation, and the relative importance of discourse segment were identified. Five speakers of standard Chinese were recorded reading ten paragraphs with two repetitions. Boundary pause duration, f0 max, f0 min, and pitch range of the segments were measured. It was found that speakers realized longer pauses at boundaries of higher hierarchy. Furthermore, compared with segments linked by nucleus-satellite relation, segments linked by multinuclear relation were found to have wider pre-boundary pitch range. Additionally, important segments were found to be articulated with wider pitch range than unimportant segments. These results suggest that rhetorical structure is reliably conveyed by prosodic parameters in standard Chinese.
学科主题	Psycholinguistics
收录类别	SCI
项目简介	Manuscript received September 18, 2010; revised April 28, 2011, September 05, 2011, and September 14, 2011; accepted October 16, 2011. Date of publication November 21, 2011; date of current version February 17, 2012. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60775026). The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Keiichi Tokuda.
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000300427600005
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/12903]
专题	心理研究所_认知与发展心理学研究室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100409, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Xiaohong,Yang, Yufang. Prosodic Realization of Rhetorical Structure in Chinese Discourse[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING,2012,20(4):1196-1206.
APA	Yang, Xiaohong,&Yang, Yufang.(2012).Prosodic Realization of Rhetorical Structure in Chinese Discourse.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING,20(4),1196-1206.
MLA	Yang, Xiaohong,et al."Prosodic Realization of Rhetorical Structure in Chinese Discourse".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING 20.4(2012):1196-1206.