Chest and abdomen breathing while reading literature in Mandarin
YANG Feng1, KONG Jiangping2
1. Institute of Applied Linguistics, College of Chinese Language and Culture, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510610, China;
2. Research Center for Chinese Linguistics, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract：Chest and abdomen breathing characteristics were studied while reading Mandarin Chinese literature. The speech and breathing signals were recorded from four annoucers while reading 90 passages with different styles, including modern poems, ci, news, and essays. The extracted breathing parameters were the breathing reset amplitude, duration, slope, and area during the inhalation and exhalation phases. The results show that the breathing strategy during speech differs from that during natural breathing with different chest and abdomen breathing patterns for different styles of prose. Systematic breathing resets occur while reading poems and ci. Three levels of breathing resets are identified while reading news and essays at the paragraph-initial, main clause-initial and subordinate clause-initial positions. The chest and abdomen breathing are coordinated during all the reading activities, but each has its distinct functions. These results are of significance to prosody and speech production and provide a basis for articulatory modeling of breathing in speech production.
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