Prosodic and syntactic focus in speech processing in Mandarin Chinese

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Prosodic and syntactic focus in speech processing in Mandarin Chinese

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Victoria University of Wellington

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Open Access Victoria University of Wellington

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It is well established that focus plays an important role in facilitating language processing, i.e., focused words are recognised faster and remembered better. In addition, more recent research shows that alternatives to a word (e.g., sailor as an alternative to captain) are more activated when listeners hear the word with contrastive prominence (e.g., ‘The captain put on the raincoat) (bold indicates contrastive prominence). The mechanism behind these processing advantages is focus. Focus ha...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2020

Creator

Mengzhu Yan

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Prosodic_and_syntactic_focus_in_speech_processing_in_Mandari...

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Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) / Mandarin / speech processing / focus perception / prosody / clefting / priming / School: School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies / Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) / Degree Discipline: Linguistics / Degree Level: Doctoral / Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy

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