A Preliminary study of Hindi intonation

Anuradha Sengar, Robert Mannell

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    Abstract

    We present a study which investigates the phonological structure of Hindi declarative and interrogative tunes, using the autosegmental-metrical(AM) framework developed by Pierrehumbert [1] and others. This study finds that Hindi is an accentual phrase (AP) language and the AP is the smallest tonally marked unit which carries the pitch accent. The default pitch accent is found to be L*+H, a bitonal pitch accent. This study also finds that Hindi supports three types of phrasal tones, namely, accentual phrase (AP), intermediate phrase (ip) and intonational phrase (Ip). The Ip differentiates the different sentence types.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)149-152
    Number of pages4
    JournalProceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    EventAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (14th : 2012) - Sydney
    Duration: 3 Dec 20126 Dec 2012

    Keywords

    • Hindi intonation
    • accentual phrase
    • intermediate phrase
    • intonational phrase

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