@inproceedings{b51d1d3799cd410f98251db3d81b6e7a,
title = "A corpus study of the prosody of polysyllabic words in Mandarin Chinese",
abstract = "This paper presents a corpus study of polysyllabic words in Standard Mandarin Chinese. In particular, this study investigates their prosodic features with respect to the notions of prosodic strength and stress. We find a robust strong-weak alternation with respect to F0, but different patterns for duration. In disyllabic words the first syllable tends be slightly longer than the second. However, for three and four syllable words the last syllable is the longest, followed by the first. These patterns suggest that F0 is a reliable phonetic indicator of metrical structure in Mandarin Chinese, rather than duration.",
keywords = "Corpus, Duration, Mandarin Chinese, Prosodic strength, Stress, Tone",
author = "Catherine Lai and Yanyan Sui and Jiahong Yuan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.; 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010 ; Conference date: 10-05-2010 Through 14-05-2010",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody",
publisher = "International Speech Communications Association",
booktitle = "5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010",
}