초록 열기/닫기 버튼
The present study examines the pitch patterns within a superfoot that contains a toned-syllable followed by neutral-toned syllables at a sentence-final position in ma-particle questions in Mandarin Chinese. Results of the experiment conducted for this study indicate that the pitch contour of the neutral-toned syllables is largely determined by the lexical tone of the preceding syllable, and that the tone targets tend to be realized close to the left boundary of a superfoot. It is also found that a high boundary tone is not manifested on the ma-particle, which calls for further research on question intonation patterns of the language.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
prosody, intonational phonology, prosodic unit, foot, superfoot, boundary tone, ma-particle question, pitch contour, tonal target, neutral tone, neutral-toned syllable, toned-syllable
