Publikation: The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese
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The present study investigates the prosody of information-seeking (ISQs) and rhetorical questions (RQs) in Standard Chinese, in polar and wh-questions. Like in other languages, ISQs and RQs in Standard Chinese can have the same surface structure, allowing for a direct prosodic comparison between illocution types (ISQ vs RQ). Since Standard Chinese has lexical tone, the use of f0 as a cue to illocution type may be restricted. We inves-tigate the prosodic differences between ISQs and RQs as well as the interplay of prosodic cues to RQs. In terms of f0, results showed that RQs were lower in f0, with the f0 range on the first word being expanded followed by f0 compression. RQs were further longer in duration and more often realized with non-modal voice quality (glottalized voice) as compared to ISQs. These prosodic cues were largely manipulated in tandem (illocutionary pairs with lar-ger durational differences also showed larger differences in mean f0; voice quality, in turn, seemed to be an addi-tional cue). We suggest three possible explanations (assertive force, focus, speaker attitude) that unite the present findings on RQs in Standard Chinese with the findings on RQs in other, non-tonal languages.The present study investigates the prosody of information-seeking (ISQs) and rhetorical questions (RQs) in Standard Chinese, in polar and wh-questions. Like in other languages, ISQs and RQs in Standard Chinese can have the same surface structure, allowing for a direct prosodic comparison between illocution types (ISQ vs RQ). Since Standard Chinese has lexical tone, the use of f0 as a cue to illocution type may be restricted. We inves-tigate the prosodic differences between ISQs and RQs as well as the interplay of prosodic cues to RQs. In terms of f0, results showed that RQs were lower in f0, with the f0 range on the first word being expanded followed by f0 compression. RQs were further longer in duration and more often realized with non-modal voice quality (glottalized voice) as compared to ISQs. These prosodic cues were largely manipulated in tandem (illocutionary pairs with lar-ger durational differences also showed larger differences in mean f0; voice quality, in turn, seemed to be an addi-tional cue). We suggest three possible explanations (assertive force, focus, speaker attitude) that unite the present findings on RQs in Standard Chinese with the findings on RQs in other, non-tonal languages.
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ZAHNER-RITTER, Katharina, Yiya CHEN, Nicole DEHÉ, Bettina BRAUN, 2022. The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese. In: Journal of Phonetics. Elsevier. 2022, 95, 101190. ISSN 0095-4470. eISSN 1095-8576. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101190BibTex
@article{ZahnerRitter2022-11proso-59051, year={2022}, doi={10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101190}, title={The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese}, volume={95}, issn={0095-4470}, journal={Journal of Phonetics}, author={Zahner-Ritter, Katharina and Chen, Yiya and Dehé, Nicole and Braun, Bettina}, note={Article Number: 101190} }
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