The Study Of Chinese Mandarin Intonation By Experiment

The study of Intonation is one of the important problems in phonetics. The wide conception about Intonation is very complex, besides the pitch, intensity and length, further connected with the mind, the emotion and the attitude etc. The Intonation we referred is also called the tone of sentences. We measured lots of Mandarin spoken language's pitch by phonetics experiment. We also analyzed the pitches of different sentences, compared. We believe that, we can conclude the types of Chinese Mandarin Intonation in a simple way. Thus we can provide some reasons for the other studies about Intonation. During our experiment, we saw the"declination phenomenon"is obvious, including all kinds of sentences. For some sentences pitch's ascending, we also pay attention to the focuses of them and analyses the reason of the ascending. On the other hand, Chinese is a tone language, we tried our best to study the common characters of Chinese Intonation and tone, and avoided the special character of Chinese tone, according to the conception of"the range of pitch".