Prosodic hierarchy and the encoding of modality: a study of L2 French statements and commands by Mandarin learners.

Front Psychol · 2026 · PMC13121115 · PMID 42058297

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Crucially, a highly significant Group × Modality interaction was observed [ F (2, 697.78) = 6.68, p = 0.001], confirming that native speakers and learners employ distinct strategies in modulating global pitch range to signal sentence function.

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marginal significancep = 0.052so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Regarding Final Pitch Span, the main effect of Length was dominant [ F (1, 701.70) = 34.70, p < 0.001], whereas the effect of Group reached only marginal significance ( p = 0.052).

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