Abstract
This research, by conducting acoustic features analysis and perception experiments on 10 speakers’ speech material which contained two couples of Chinese homophones (“qu(4) shi(4)” [“interesting thing” or “dying out”] and “sheng(1) xue(2)” [“acoustics” or “entering a higher school”]), has found that it is the sentence prominence, other than the stress, that disambiguate the two couples of homophones. This result means that sentence prominence can disambiguate some Chinese homophones by emphasizing some syllables of these homophones.
| Keywords: | homophone; stress; sentence prominence; disambiguity |
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