Τετάρτη 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

Prosodic Encoding of Focus in Hijazi Arabic

Publication date: Available online 24 December 2018Source: Speech CommunicationAuthor(s): Muhammad Swaileh Alzaidi, Yi Xu, Anqi XuAbstractThis paper presents findings of the first systematic acoustic analysis of focus prosody in Hijazi Arabic (HA), an under-researched Arabic dialect. A question-answer paradigm was used to elicit information and contrastive focus at different sentence locations in comparison with their neutral focus counterparts. Systematic acoustic analyses were performed to compare all the focus conditions, in terms of both continuous F0 trajectories and specific acoustic measurements. Results show that focused words have significantly expanded excursion size, higher maximum F0 and longer duration. Post-focus words have significantly lowered F0 (except in the case of penu...

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