Abstract
Declarative moods sometimes bear some emotions in stating events. This emotive expression often recurs to modal particles in the end of the sentence. Through experimental analysis, we find that prosodic features of the modal particles often will change will different moods, including pitch, duration and energy. The changes of pitch and duration are more stable and those of energy are not. Modal particles in the end of the sentence may help expressing different moods with different prosodic features. But not all prosodic features of modal particles can express moods.
| Keywords: | declarative moods; modal particles; prosodic features; stress |
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