INTENSITY PATTERNS IN CHINESE SENTENCES OF THE SURABAYA-CITIZEN SPEECH

A relationship between intensity, tone level and duration of a discourse, and also difference in intensity
understanding between tone language like Chinese and non-tone language like Indonesian was the purpose of this
paper to examine intensity patterns in Chinese sentences of the Surabaya-citizen speech. A qualitative descriptive
method was used. These record data discourse were processed with a Praat program. Analyses results showed
that in declarative sentences a descending pattern occur when the sentence function to inform something only, and
shows an ascending pattern if besides giving information, also involve emotion. Intensity patterns in question
sentence ascend. Intensity patterns in command sentences also ascend. In shout-out sentences, intensity patterns
ascends if there exists a fed up feeling and if only expresses feeling the intensity pattern descend. Within a
sentence, the strongest intensity on a word is not certain the longest. Also intensity related to juncture shows that
intensity patterns descend resembling the letter v, sometimes distinct sometimes obscure.