Abstract:
Prosody in human language could be discussed in two aspects- affective prosody and linguistic prosody. Linguistic prosody refers to linguistic phenomena in which pitch or duration (or combined) gives rise to contrastive meanings. (e.g., Tone in Mandarin, Pitch accent in Japanese, Stress in English). In these languages, speech perception requires the integration of the segmental AND prosodic information, yet prosody remains the proverbial elephant in the discussion of many language processing research. This talk will start with the introduction of prosody in L1, L2, brain damage patients and hearing impaired studies. The main discussion will be on how prosodic information is processed and acquired, drawing on the findings from our studies and previous research. Three main themes included will be: 1) Wug-testing Taiwanese tone sandhi circle, 2) Stress assignment in English by L2 learners, and 3) The role of tone in Mandarin word recognition.
Time: 11/28 Thursday 15:10~16:40
Location: Room 101, F1, Science Building 5