賽夏語語法與認知研究─賽夏語語調研究
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2004-12-27
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2004-12-27
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922411H002079
Abstract
This study investigates the prosodic realization of negation in Saisiyat, an endangered Austronesian language of Taiwan, and compares it to that of English. It also compares the prosodic characteristics of negative sentences in Saisiyat and English with those of affirmative sentences. Our results suggest that it is possible to achieve a maximal contrast in marking negation using different prosodic strategies. Saisiyat, for example, does not use F0 height to mark a focused negator as extensively as English does. We propose that Saisiyat behaves like a pitch-accent language in its prosodic realization of negation; these languages typically modify their intonation contours only minimally from the lexical to the post-lexical level. English, in contrast, exhibits large-scale prosodic differences between affirmative and negative sentences.
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臺北市：國立臺灣大學語言學研究所
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