The impact of discourse stress on clause prosody in Chinese Putonghua

By analyzing the acoustic data of a Chinese news report,the present research explores the pattern of how to change syllable duration and pitch of stress when isolated clauses are connected into a discourse.Comparing the same clause between isolated and in discourse context,the pitch variation of the clause nucleus can be most manifests,i.e.the top points as a whole fall remarkably;furthermore the degree of pitch falling varies with different kinds of stresses.When clause stresses are not assigned the status...