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It has been reported that one major feature of global prosody in continuous speech is to express cross-phrase association and cohesion through adjustment of individual phrase intonations. Another major feature of global prosody that also requires phrase intonation to adjust is to express information structure. Both features involve multi-level large scale speech planning; their interactions multifaceted...
Assuming that linguistic specifications and information planning contribute to different levels of prosodic organization that cumulatively constitute output prosody, quantitative analysis of respective contributions can be derived through normalization procedures that remove levels of interactions involved. The current study attempts to account for how Τ2 prosody departs from the Τ1 norm in the two...
It is always more difficult for L2 speakers to produce the melody and tempo of continuous speech because it requires simultaneous planning of L2 linguistic specifications, higher level discourse associations and information placements. We assume that higher level planning requires within-phrase chunking and cross-phrase paragraph phrasing while information arrangements through emphasis weighting assignment...
It has been reported in the literature that L2 English prosody differs from L1 at the lexical, syntactic and discourse levels; characterized by under-differentiated word stress and narrow focus as well as smaller discourse units, respectively. Using continuous speech data of L1 TW Mandarin, L1 English and TW L2 English, the present study compares informationstructure related L2 prosody through emphasis...
Following our previous extended paradigm of Pairwise Variability Index (PVI) to analyze both F0 and duration, we analyze and compare primary, secondary and tertiary lexical stress in English as it is realized by L1 English, L1 Taiwan Mandarin and L1 Beijing Mandarin speakers. Chao's tone letter system was also adapted to describe differences in degree of stress contrast produced by L1 and L2 speakers...
In addition to discourse association and assuming that allocation of key information is an important feature of prosodic expressiveness of continuous speech, the common accentuation patterns across 3 Mandarin speech genres through 4 degrees of perceived emphases are derived. Using frequency count as another control, it is found that only 6 types of emphasis patterns are needed account for 70% of the...
L1 English and two varieties of L1 Mandarin English speech data were extracted from the Taiwan AESOP corpus (Asian English Speech cOrpus Project) for the purpose of investigating differences in the realization of English narrow focus by L1 speakers of North American English, Taiwan Mandarin and Beijing Mandarin. Results show the combined effect of two patterns of L2 focus production: general underdifferentiation...
The purpose of this study was to develop an osteoporosis prevention program based on the Health Belief Model. This study found that the prevention program improved osteoporosis preventive behaviors among women in Taiwan. Health professionals could use this model to plan and evaluate their osteoporosis prevention programs.
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