10 Function words in rhythmic optimisation

Vogel, Ralf; Vijver, Ruben van de; Kotz, Sonja A.; Kutscher, Anna; Wagner, Petra

doi:10.1515/9783110378092.255

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“…the determiner inversion in Schlüter 2005; Kentner 2018) or possibly involve stylistic mannerisms (e.g. the verb cluster ordering reported in Vogel et al 2015). The syntax appears to be indifferent to at least some of these word order alternations: For example, determiner inversion engenders split constituents (quite a long report ∼ [a [[quite long] report]]) and thus violates rules concerning phrasal integrity.…”

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“…(dysrhythmic) there wanted the Peter in tomatoes cook 'Peter wanted to cook tomatoes in there.' For example, Vogel et al (2015) find that the syntactic placement of an inherently unaccented pronominal adverb drin 'in' (bolded in (2)) is conditioned by the prosodic structure of the immediate environment, suggesting that speakers favour rhythmic (here: dactylic) linearisations like (2a) over adverb placements which would lead to dysrhythmic word orders (2b), i.e. those in which the alternation between stressed and unstressed syllables is less regular.…”

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No evidence for prosodic effects on the syntactic encoding of complement clauses in German

Kentner

Franz

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Does linguistic rhythm matter to syntax, and if so, what kinds of syntactic decisions are susceptible to rhythm? By means of two recall-based sentence production experiments and two corpus studies-one on spoken and one on written language-we investigated whether linguistic rhythm affects the choice between introduced and un-introduced complement clauses in German. Apart from the presence or absence of the complementiser dass ('that'), these two sentence types differ with respect to the position of the tensed verb (verb-final/verb-second). Against our predictions, that were based on previously reported rhythmic effects on the use of the optional complementiser that in English, the experiments fail to obtain compelling evidence for rhythmic/prosodic influences on the structure of complement clauses in German. An overview of pertinent studies showing rhythmic influences on syntactic encoding suggests these effects to be generally restricted to syntactic domains smaller than a clause. We assume that, in the course of language production, initially, clause level syntactic projections are specified; their specification is in fact the prerequisite for phonological encoding to start. Consequently, prosodic effects may only touch upon the lower level categories that are to be integrated into the clausal projection, but not upon the syntactic makeup of the higher order projection itself.

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Section: Lack Of Rhythmic Effect On Dass-mention: Potential Reasons Amentioning

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No evidence for prosodic effects on the syntactic encoding of complement clauses in German

Kentner

Franz

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…More importantly, interlexical stress patterns in word combinations also negatively affect inter-stress interval (ISI) variance, suggesting preference for alternation post-lexically. Vogel et al (2015) found that reduced and unreduced variants of the German pronoun es are not randomly distributed but rather the choice between them depends on rhythmic context. Also, they found an interaction of syntactic and rhythmic preferences in a sentence reproduction task, where some syntactic structures are actively avoided if rhythmically irregular.…”

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“…Also, they found an interaction of syntactic and rhythmic preferences in a sentence reproduction task, where some syntactic structures are actively avoided if rhythmically irregular. This evidence led them to suggest 'rhythmic regularity' as a syntactic constraint (Vogel et al, 2015).…”

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Perspectives on Speech Timing: Coupled Oscillator Modeling of Polish and Finnish

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This stud y was ai med at analyzing empirical duration data for Polish spoken at different tempos using an updated version of the Coupled Oscillator Model of speech timing and rhythm variability (O'Dell and Nieminen, 1999, 2009). We use Bayesian inference on parameters relating to speech rate to investigate how tempo affects timing in Polish. The model parameters found are then compared with parameters obtained for equivalent material in Finnish to shed light on which of the effects represent general speech rate mechanisms and which are specific to Polish. We discuss the model and its predictions in the context of current perspectives on speech timing.

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“…The optimal prosodic structure of phrases and sentences in German and other languages builds up a strong-weak rhythm ( Liberman and Prince, 1977 ; Vogel et al, 2015 ). Although violations of this Rhythm Rule do occur frequently in spoken German, they still have behavioral as well as electrophysiological consequences (e.g., Bohn et al, 2013 ).…”

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Bono Bo and Fla Mingo: Reflections of Speech Prosody in German Second Graders’ Writing to Dictation

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Kauschke³

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Front. Psychol.

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Written German is characterized by an underrepresentation of prosody. During writing acquisition, children have to tackle the question which prosodic features are realized by what means – if any. We examined traces of speech prosody in German children’s writing to dictation. A sample of 79 second graders were asked to write down eight sentences to dictation. We analyzed three potential reflections of speech prosody in children’s dictations: (a) Merging of preposition and definite article, potentially preferred after monosyllabic prepositions as in this case preposition and article may melt to the canonical trochaic foot in German. (b) The introduction of orthographically inadequate graphemic border markings within trisyllabic animal names, respecting borders of prosodic units like foot or syllable. (c) Omissions of the definite article in non-optimal prosodic positions, deviating from the preferred strong-weak rhythm. The occurrence of border markings was evaluated via graded perceptual judgments. We found no evidence for inter-word border markings being influenced by prosodic context, probably due to a ceiling effect. However, word-internal markings within animal names, although rarely occurring in general, were clearly influenced by prosodic structure: Most of them were produced at borders of feet or syllables, while significantly fewer markings were perceived at borders of syllable constituents or within consonant clusters. Moreover, we observed significantly more omissions of the definite article in non-optimal prosodic positions compared to potentially optimal positions. Thus, our results provide first evidence from writing acquisition for prosodic influences on writing in a language with scarce graphemic marking of prosody.

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10 Function words in rhythmic optimisation

Cited by 6 publications

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No evidence for prosodic effects on the syntactic encoding of complement clauses in German

No evidence for prosodic effects on the syntactic encoding of complement clauses in German

Perspectives on Speech Timing: Coupled Oscillator Modeling of Polish and Finnish

Bono Bo and Fla Mingo: Reflections of Speech Prosody in German Second Graders’ Writing to Dictation

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