Subjects: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics >> Linguistics and Applied Linguistics submitted time 2022-08-10
Abstract： Objective This paper explores the proportion and influencing factors of rising intonation at the end of Jinzhou discourse to objectively displays the intonation characteristics of Jinzhou discourse. At the same time, it finds out the acoustic parameters that can reflect the rising intonation at the end of a sentence, and lays the foundation for the acoustic research of intonation research. Methods Combining acoustic experiments and listening discrimination experiments, taking the four sentences types in Mandarin as the control group, this paper uses parameters such as the pitch difference between the beginning and the end of the sentence at the end of the sentence, and the pitch difference between the beginning and end of the last and the non-modal particle word to analyze and describe the characteristics of intonation at the end of sentences in Jinzhou dialect. Results The rate of the rising intonation at the end of a sentence is 47.6%. The judgement of rising mainly depends on the relationship between the pitch difference between the beginning and the end of a sentence between Jinzhou dialect and Mandarin. When expressing doubts and shocks, Jinzhou dialect has a larger increase than Mandarin, and the declarative sentences of “啊” show a kind of rising intonation. Limitations This paper only initially analyzes the conditions and performance of rising intonation at the end of sentences in Jinzhou from the perspective of pitch, while the duration and intensity of rising intonation are also different from those in Mandarin, and further research is needed. Conclusions The results of this paper show that there is a rise in the pitch at the end of sentences in Jinzhou dialect, but it is not a rise in every sentence. The pitch difference between the beginning and the end of the word at the end of the sentence, and the pitch difference between the beginning and end of the last and the non-modal particle word can be used as a rising judgment indicator. The rising intonation at the end of a sentence corresponds to the pragmatic purpose, which is to attract others' attention in order to obtain a response.
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Subjects: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics >> Linguistics and Applied Linguistics submitted time 2022-01-05
Abstract： " [Objective] We study the reading performance of different fonts and writing systems that are using in Chinese publications. [Methods] Specifically, the Chinese characters in a sentence are rendered into their corresponding glyph images, then fold those images into a three-dimensional sentence tensor according to the word order. For different fonts or simplified/traditional Chinese text, we can get the corresponding representations with visual differences. By inputting the obtained sentence tensor into the proposed deep language model, we test them on text classification, which can objectively study the influence of font and writing system on reading performance. [Results] According to the experiments on two real-world Chinese text classification datasets, Toutiao and Thucnews, we found that the accuracy of text classification on some uncommon fonts is lower than that of common used fonts, and the text representation efficiency of different fonts in the common fonts is also different. [Conclusions] Through a hypothesis test, we found that there is a significant difference in the accuracy of using the data sets of regular script and bold script for text classification task, and the efficiency of regular script is higher than that of bold script. There are significant differences in reading performance between simplified and traditional writing systems. " "
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