This paper discusses rhythmic characteristics of Standard Chinese. The study is based on relevant acoustic-phonetic investigations, including some paralinguistic analyses. The preliminary result leads to the considerations that (1) there is no evidence to regard Chinese as a syllable-timed language; (2) speech rhythm may be more related to regular occurrence and variation of certain prosodic phenomena at particular positions, in stead of isochronal recurrence of any speech unit.
Cite as: Cao, J. (2000) Rhythm of spoken Chinese - linguistic and paralinguistic evidences -. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 2, 357-360, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-282
@inproceedings{cao00_icslp,
author={Jianfen Cao},
title={{Rhythm of spoken Chinese - linguistic and paralinguistic evidences -}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 2, 357-360},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.2000-282}
}