Prosody of focus in statements of the Altai language
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0046/000461Keywords:
Altai language, intonation, prosody, narrative statement, topic, focusAbstract
The prosody of verbal word forms in the narrative utterances of the Altai language is under consideration in the article. In this work, in addition to the acoustic analysis in the Praat program, we took into account the subjective perception of native speakers. In the simple statements the intonation declines on the predicate when realizing the topic of the utterance. The focus of the utterance may be expressed by pitch and intensity peak.
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