Mandarin Chinese is one of the well studied tone languages, and related contextual tonal variations as a function of prosody have attracted many researchers' interest. Change of voice quality, which is not phonemic in Mandarin, is also subject to prosody. The focus of this study will be the effects of prosodic structure, focus in particular, on voice quality in Mandarin Chinese, and the results show that there are consistent effects of prominence and T3 on voice quality change. There are also great individual variations in terms of rates and kinds of non-modal voice quality utilized.
Cite as: Zheng, X. (2006) Voice quality variation with tone and focus in Mandarin. Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2006), 132-136
@inproceedings{zheng06_tal,
author={Xiaoju Zheng},
title={{Voice quality variation with tone and focus in Mandarin}},
year=2006,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2006)},
pages={132--136}
}