TTLV: A Survey of Some Typical Imperative Intonation Patterns in Vietnamese

INFORMATION ABOUT THE MASTER'S THESIS

1. Student's full name:Dinh Thi Hang        

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: June 26, 1988

4. Place of birth: Kim Dong, Hung Yen

5. Decision No. 1936/2011/QD-XHNV-SDH dated October 10, 2011, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, recognizing the student.

6. Changes in the training process: None

7. Thesis title: A survey of some typical imperative intonation patterns in Vietnamese.

8. Major: Linguistics Code: 60 22 02 40

9. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Kim Bang, Institute of Linguistics, Vietnam

10. Summary of the thesis results:

This thesis focuses on describing the basic types of imperative intonation in Vietnamese based on the speaker's communicative purpose. The results of this thesis point out the characteristics and differences between three types of imperative intonation: RaOrder, RequestandEntreatthrough three intonation parameters:altitude, intensityandlength.

11. Practical applications:

The results of this thesis can be applied in two main areas.Teaching Vietnamese as a Foreign LanguageandInformation technology(Speech synthesis from text, speech recognition and human-robot dialogue, etc.).

12. Published works related to the thesis: None

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name:Dinh Thi Hang2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: June 26, 1988 4. Place of birth: Kim Dong, Hung Yen

5. Admission decision number: 1936/2011/QD-XHNV-SĐH on October 10, 2011 by the Rector of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi – Vietnam National University.

6. Changes in academic process: None

7. Official thesis title:Surveying some basic imperative intonation patterns in Vietnamese

8. Major: Linguistics 9. Code: 60 22 02 40

10. Supervisors: Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Kim Bang, Institute of Linguistics, Vietnam.

11. Summary of the findings of the thesis:

The thesis focuses on the description of basic imperative intonation patterns in Vietnamese based on the speaker's communicative intention. The results of this thesis indicate some intonation features as well as indicate the distinction of three kinds of imperative intonations:Command, RequestandIn retirement, through three prosodic parameters:pitch, slopeandduration.

12. Practical applicability, if any:

The results of the thesis can be applied in two main fields:Teaching Vietnamese as a foreign languageandInformation Technology(speech synthesis of text, speech recognition and man-machine dialog systems, etc.)

13. Thesis-related publications: None