Coupling of tone and constriction gestures in pitch accents

Mücke, Doris; Nam, Hosung; Hermes, Anne; Goldstein, Louis

doi:10.1515/9781614510772.205

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“…Niemann et al (2011) and Mücke et al (2012) suggest that a high tone be represented as a laryngeal gesture phased with respect to the vowel constriction gesture (in-phase), which in turn is phased with other consonants in the syllable (in-phase or anti-phase). Such a coordination of articulatory gestures would be expected to yield acoustic correlates that are interdependent in duration, depending on the strength and directness of the phasing relation between them.…”

Section: Tone Alignmentmentioning

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F₀Timing and Tone Contrasts in Luganda

Myers¹,

Namyalo²,

Kiriggwajjo³

2018

Phonetica

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Scholars of Luganda (Bantu, Uganda) have described a contrast between falling and high tone, which is limited to syllables with a long vowel or a coda. The contrast has been represented with H on the first mora of a falling-tone syllable and on both moras in a high-tone syllable. This article explores this contrast through an instrumental study of the timing of f₀ events in Luganda. It was found that the 2-tone classes differed in the timing of both the f₀ rise and the subsequent f₀ fall, supporting a reanalysis of the contrast as one between an early high tone and a late high tone. It was also found that for the speakers in this study, the contrast was limited to syllables with long vowels. The timing of f₀ events was sensitive to the duration of segments in the CVC interval centered on the high-toned syllable, including non-moraic elements and consonants outside the syllable. The association of a tone to a syllable identifies the segments relevant for the timing of the f₀ contour, but that timing is not directly sensitive to the interval of the syllable.

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Section: Tone Alignmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

F₀Timing and Tone Contrasts in Luganda

Myers¹,

Namyalo²,

Kiriggwajjo³

2018

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“…They have as their goal tonal targets and are coordinated with constriction gestures [13]. This approach has also been used to investigate Catalan and German pitch accents [65], and boundary tones in Greek [14,66]. These developments allow us to consider the relationship among prosodic events, and between prosodic events and constriction events, in terms of gestures and gestural coordination (where gestural coordination refers to the timing of gestures to each other).…”

Section: Prosodic Gestures (A) the P-gesture Modelmentioning

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Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Krivokapic

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Prosodic structure is a grammatical component that serves multiple functions in the production, comprehension and acquisition of language. Prosodic boundaries are critical for the understanding of the nature of the prosodic structure of language, and important progress has been made in the past decades in illuminating their properties. We first review recent prosodic boundary research from the point of view of gestural coordination. We then go on to tie in this work to questions of speech planning and manual and head movement. We conclude with an outline of a new direction of research which is needed for a full understanding of prosodic boundaries and their role in the speech production process.

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“…The framework of Articulatory Phonology [16,17] has in recent years started to include prosodic information [18,19,20,21,22,23]. More specifically tones have been proposed to represent articulatory gestures, i.e.…”

Section: The Interplay Of Tonal and Articulatory Gesturesmentioning

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“…More specifically tones have been proposed to represent articulatory gestures, i.e. tone gestures, comparable to consonantal and vocalic gestures [19,21], and tonal alignment has been shown to be more stable relative to articulatory landmarks [21,24,25,26] than to acoustic ones [27,28,29,30,31]. Lexical tone gestures in Mandarin have even been proposed to compete with consonantal gestures in onset [19].…”

Section: The Interplay Of Tonal and Articulatory Gesturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An alternative explanation could assume (iii) a lexical tonal target in A2, but not in A1 [8], and relate the competitiveness to the phonological status of the tone. Indeed, post-lexical tone gestures have been shown to not result in a c-center effect, hence they seem to not compete with the consonantal gestures in onset [21].…”

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Exploring Multidimensionality: Acoustic and Articulatory Correlates of Swedish Word Accents

Lundmark¹,

Ambrazaitis²,

Ewald³

2017

Interspeech 2017

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This study investigates acoustic and articulatory correlates of South Swedish word accents (Accent 1 vs. 2) -a tonal distinction traditionally associated with F0 timing. The study is motivated by previous findings on (i) the acoustic complexity of tonal prosody and (ii) tonal-articulatory interplay in other languages.Acoustic and articulatory (EMA) data from two controlled experiments are reported (14 speakers in total; pilot EMA recordings with 2 speakers). Apart from the well-established F0 timing pattern, results of Experiment 1 reveal a longer duration of a post-stress consonant in Accent 2 than in Accent 1, a higher degree of creaky voice in Accent 1, as well as a deviant (two-peak) pitch pattern in Accent 2 for one of eight discourse conditions used in the experiment. Experiment 2 reveals an effect of word accent on vowel articulation, as the tongue body gesture target is reached earlier in Accent 2. It also suggests slight but (marginally) significant word-accent effects on word-initial gestural coordination, taking slightly different forms in the two speakers, as well as corresponding differences in word-initial formant patterns. Results are discussed concerning their potential perceptual relevance, as well as with reference to the c-center effect discussed within Articulatory Phonology.

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Coupling of tone and constriction gestures in pitch accents

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F₀Timing and Tone Contrasts in Luganda

F₀Timing and Tone Contrasts in Luganda

Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Exploring Multidimensionality: Acoustic and Articulatory Correlates of Swedish Word Accents

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Coupling of tone and constriction gestures in pitch accents

Cited by 20 publications

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F0Timing and Tone Contrasts in Luganda

F0Timing and Tone Contrasts in Luganda

Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes

Exploring Multidimensionality: Acoustic and Articulatory Correlates of Swedish Word Accents

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F₀Timing and Tone Contrasts in Luganda

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