The Interaction Pattern of Focal Accent and Declarative Intonation in Mongolian

Based on a rigorous experimental corpus, this study explores the interaction pattern of focal accent and declarative intonation in Mongolian, spoken in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, china. The results suggest that the narrow foci at the initial, middle, and final position of the sentence are all encoded with the F0 top line, but in varied pitch properties and realization domains. The declarative intonation function is rhythmically encoded through F0 bottom line. Meanwhile, the intonation interacts with the focus function during the encoding process.