The paper focuses on the respiratory prosody of seven-syllable modem-style poems chanted in Cantonese, especially the relationship between respiratory prosody and sentential pause-extension. By collecting and analyzin...The paper focuses on the respiratory prosody of seven-syllable modem-style poems chanted in Cantonese, especially the relationship between respiratory prosody and sentential pause-extension. By collecting and analyzing respiratory and acoustic-phonetic signals simultaneously, this research reveals a two level chest and abdominal breath reset in the respiratory signals： （1） In the first level （L1）, the breath reset appears at the beginning or the end of the clause. （2） In the second level （L2）, the breath reset appears in the middle of the clause, of which the position relates to different tone patterns. There is a strong connection between respiratory prosody and the sentential pause-extension when chanting the seven-syllable modem-style poems in Cantonese： with L1 breath reset corresponding to the longest pause-extension at the end of the clause, while L2 breath reset corresponding to the longer pause-extension in the middle of the clause, usually falling at the end of the second syllable of the clause with tone pattern of Level-start and Level-end, or at the end of the fourth syllable of the clause with other tone patterns.展开更多
文摘The paper focuses on the respiratory prosody of seven-syllable modem-style poems chanted in Cantonese, especially the relationship between respiratory prosody and sentential pause-extension. By collecting and analyzing respiratory and acoustic-phonetic signals simultaneously, this research reveals a two level chest and abdominal breath reset in the respiratory signals： （1） In the first level （L1）, the breath reset appears at the beginning or the end of the clause. （2） In the second level （L2）, the breath reset appears in the middle of the clause, of which the position relates to different tone patterns. There is a strong connection between respiratory prosody and the sentential pause-extension when chanting the seven-syllable modem-style poems in Cantonese： with L1 breath reset corresponding to the longest pause-extension at the end of the clause, while L2 breath reset corresponding to the longer pause-extension in the middle of the clause, usually falling at the end of the second syllable of the clause with tone pattern of Level-start and Level-end, or at the end of the fourth syllable of the clause with other tone patterns.
