An acoustic phonetic study on the intonation of the south-east-asian languages and Japanese

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The aim of this research is to investigate how emphasis is expressed by means of intonation in languages of different types; that is, tone languages, a pitch accent language, and a stress accent language. Examination of acoustic phonetic data has demonstrated that whereas the accent languages employ intonation to express the emphasis, the tone languages do not. Furthermore, the pitch pattern of the combined words in utterance should not be regarded as mere coarticulative adjustment, but as a dynamic pattern assigned to each combination of tonal units that forms a morphosyntactic unit.