Abstract
This research, by conducting acoustic features analysis and perception experiments on 10 speakers’ speech material which contain four Chinese words (生物、明天、涼鞋、花茶), has found that the inner semantic structure of Chinese words can influence the distribution of acoustic cues of sentence prominence across the syllables of these words. This influence happens when sentence prominence emphasizes words in which stressed syllable is not the semantic focus and the semantic structure is apparent. In this situation, the acoustic cues of sentence prominence mainly localize on the semantic focal syllable (non-stressed syllable). So the research has proved that Chinese does not conform to the metrical grid rule absolutely.
| Keywords: | semantic structure; sentence prominence; stressed-syllable |
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