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Wang, Chih Chieh (2023)

Clause Type Anticipation based on the Prosody of Beijing Mandarin? Evidence from Taiwan Mandarin listeners

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

The current study offers the first clause type anticipation based on the prosody of Beijing Mandarin for native Taiwan Mandarin listeners, building upon the research of Gryllia et al. (2020). By conducting an online audio-gating experiment, our findings indicated that TM listeners encounter difficulties anticipating wh-questions based on BM prosodic cues, whereas the anticipation of declaratives was more successful. The effect of the clause types intended by the BM speaker was significant from Gate II, and the effect of tones in Gate III suggested an intertwined interaction between tone and intonation. Additionally, the impact of the gate and its interaction with the intended clause type was also shown to influence the clause type anticipation.

prosody, anticipation, clause type, Taiwan Mandarin, Beijing Mandarin

Author

Wang, Chih Chieh

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Modern Languages (Chinese)

Supervisors

Pablos Robles, L.
Cheng, L.L.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en