Dresden Fallbogen Contours as an Example of Regionalized German Intonation

Selting, Margret

doi:10.1353/cjl.2006.0008

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“…Prosodic variation has been observed across dialects in numerous historically unrelated languages, including Basque (Hualde, Elordieta, Gaminde, & Smiljanic 2002), Danish (Grønnum 1990), Dutch (Gussenhoven 2000; Gussenhoven & van der Vliet 1999; Haan & van Heuven 1999), German (Grønnum 1990; Selting 2004), Irish (Dalton & Ní Chasaide 2003, 2005), Italian (Grice, D’Imperio, Savino, & Avesani 2005; Prieto, D’Imperio, & Fivela 2005), Mayali (Bishop & Fletcher 2005), Norwegian (Gooskens & Heeringa 2006), Portuguese (Frota & Vigario 2001), Serbian and Croatian (Smiljanic 2004, 2006), Spanish (Beckman, Diaz-Campos, McGory, & Morgan 2002; Elordieta & Calleja 2005), and Swedish (Bruce 2005; Grønnum 1990). These studies have demonstrated that the range of prosodic phenomena along which dialects can vary includes rhythmic characteristics, type and frequency of occurrence of phonologically contrastive tonal categories, their phonetic implementation, and their combination into phrase-level tunes, as well as the interpretation of those tunes.…”

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Effects of gender and regional dialect on prosodic patterns in American English

Clopper

Smiljanić

2011

Journal of Phonetics

137

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While cross-dialect prosodic variation has been well established for many languages, most variationist research on regional dialects of American English has focused on the vowel system. The current study was designed to explore prosodic variation in read speech in two regional varieties of American English: Southern and Midland. Prosodic dialect variation was analyzed in two domains: speaking rate and the phonetic expression of pitch movements associated with accented and phrase-final syllables. The results revealed significant effects of regional dialect on the distributions of pauses, pitch accents, and phrasal-boundary tone combinations. Significant effects of talker gender were also observed on the distributions of pitch accents and phrasalboundary tone combinations. The findings from this study demonstrate that regional and gender identity features are encoded in part through prosody, and provide further motivation for the close examination of prosodic patterns across regional and social varieties of American English. Keywordsprosody; intonation; regional dialects; gender; American English IntroductionHistorically, the focus of most research on regional variation in American English has been on lexical and segmental sources of variability based on fieldworker transcriptions of interview speech (e.g., the Linguistic Atlas projects, the Dictionary of American Regional English). Although more recent research has moved away from impressionistic transcriptions and has adopted acoustic analysis techniques to document and describe regional and ethnic variation in the United States, the research remains largely focused on segmental sources of variability, particularly in the vowel system. For example, Thomas' (2001) Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Similar to the studies of prosodic characteristics in dialects of other languages, studies of prosodic variation in varieties of English have examined a range of phenomena. For example, speaking rate differences between New Zealand and American English varieties were examined by Robb, Maclagan, and Chen (2004), who found that New Zealand English speech was significantly faster than American English speech in terms of overall speaking rate (including pauses) and articulation rate (excluding pauses). Robb et al. (2004) attributed the effect of dialect on speaking rate to differences in vowel quality between New Zealand and American English and suggested that those vowel quality differences may also produce differences in rhythm across these varieties, although they did not explicitly test their hypothesis. ...

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