Experimental research on the role of information structure and accent in Chinese speech comprehension
Dingdong Wang, Yike Yang · Institutional Repository of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) · 2004
Two experiments were investigated the correspondence between sentence accentuation and distribution of information in speech comprehension. Experiment 1, target words provided either given or new, and were either accented or deaccented. The result showed that new was accented and given was deaccented would be fast in speech comprehension. Experiment 2, target words were the theme or the rheme in the first utterance, and the target words were accented in the second utterance. The result showed that accented word referring to a previously mentioned less salience entities when information was given.