title: Focus in production: tonal shape, intensity and word order.
abstract: The effect of word order and prosodic focus on the tonal shape and intensity in the production of prosody was studied. The results show that the production of focus in Finnish follows a global pattern with regard to tonal features. The relative pitch height difference between contrasted words is the most important pitch-related factor in signaling narrow prosodic focus. Narrow focus is not localized to prosodically emphasized words only but relates to the utterance as a whole. It was also found that syntactic structure with respect to both intensity and tonal structure modulated relative prosodic prominence of individual words.
authors.forename: Martti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vainio
authors.forename: Juhani
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Järvikivi
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010699:Phonation; D012660:Semantics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014833:Voice Quality