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Typology of Paiwan Interrogative Prosody Chun-Mei Chen Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chung Hsing University chench@dragon.nchu.edu.tw a Paiwan lexical word, as many second language learners can Abstract do, but the change of prosodic patterns in their speech could This paper investigates the phonetic correlates of interrogative result in the misunderstanding of communication or the loss of prosodic features in Paiwan, an Austronesian language spoken verbal arts. in Taiwan. An attempt has been made to capture the typology Chiang and Chiang [7] claim that Saisiyat, another of the Paiwan interrogative prosody. The interrogative Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan, is a pitch accent sentence in Paiwan consists of one or more prosodic words language. They measure various prosodic parameters of which are usually larger than a verb stem. Yes/no, tag and syllable rhymes, such as F0 height at onset, offset, peak and alternative questions are characteristically marked by a high trough, pitch range, duration, and slope of content words in final boundary tone, whereas WH-questions are realized with a Saisiyat, and they suggest that accent in Saisiyat should be low final boundary tone. It