German Intonation in Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology

Grice, Martine; Baumann, Stefan; Benzmüller, Ralf

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“…No explicit instructions were given as to the prosodic structure. The two intonation patterns employed are transcribed using GToBI (Grice & Baumann, 2002;Grice, Baumann, & Benzmüller, 2004) and presented in stylised form in Fig. 2a and b.…”

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The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: A study of anticipatory eye movements

2006

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An eye-tracking experiment examined whether prosodic cues can affect the interpretation of grammatical functions in the absence of clear morphological information. German listeners were presented with scenes depicting three potential referents while hearing temporarily ambiguous SVO and OVS sentences. While case marking on the first noun phrase (NP) was ambiguous, clear case marking on the second NP disambiguated sentences towards SVO or OVS. Listeners interpreted caseambiguous NP1s more often as Subject, and thus expected an Object as upcoming argument, only when sentence beginnings carried an SVO-type intonation. This was revealed by more anticipatory eye movements to suitable Patients (Objects) than Agents (Subjects) in the visual scenes. No such preference was found when sentence beginnings had an OVS-type intonation. Prosodic cues were integrated rapidly enough to affect listeners' interpretation of grammatical function before disambiguating case information was available. We conclude that in addition to manipulating attachment ambiguities, prosody can influence the interpretation of constituent order ambiguities. q

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The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: A study of anticipatory eye movements

2006

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“…27. Or H+L*, (L+)H*, and L*+H in the GToBI system for the analysis of German intonation (Grice et al 2005). 28.…”

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Tonal Center of Gravity: A global approach to tonal implementation in a level-based intonational phonology

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Veilleux

Brugos

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Laboratory Phonology

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“…This focus on F0 is, of course, well justified and allowed speech scientists of the past decades to accumulate considerable knowledge of the syntagmatic structure of intonational tunes and the forms and functions of melodic elements at each structural position in the syntagma (for German, cf. [1][2][3][4][5]). …”

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On the perception of “segmental intonation”: F0 context effects on sibilant identification in German

Niebuhr

2017

J AUDIO SPEECH MUSIC PROC.

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In normal modally voiced utterances, voiceless fricatives like [s], [ʃ], [f], and [x] vary such that their aperiodic pitch impressions mirror the pitch level of the adjacent F0 contour. For instance, if the F0 contour creates a high or low pitch context, then the aperiodic pitch impression of the fricative in this context will also be high or low. This contextmatching effect has been termed "segmental intonation". While there is accumulating evidence for segmental intonation in speech production, less is known about if and how segmental intonation is actually integrated in the perception of utterance tunes. This question is addressed here in a perception experiment in which listeners identified target words ending in either [ʃ] or [s]. The two sibilants inherently create low or high aperiodic pitch impressions in listeners due to their characteristically different spectral energy distributions. The sibilants were preceded by high or low F0 contexts in the target words. Results show a clear F0-context effect. The context effect triggered more [ʃ] identifications in high-F0 and/or more [s] identifications in low-F0 contexts. The effect was larger for sibilants that were less clearly identifiable as either /ʃ/ or /s/. The effect represents strong supporting evidence that listeners in fact perceive the segmental intonation of fricatives and integrate its aperiodic pitch with the F0-based pitch when perceiving utterance intonation. Thus, the term "segmental intonation" is perceptually appropriate. Furthermore, the results are discussed with respect to reactiontime measurements and an additional effect of the quality of the adjacent vowel phoneme on sibilant identification.

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German Intonation in Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology

Cited by 376 publications

References 8 publications

The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: A study of anticipatory eye movements

The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: A study of anticipatory eye movements

Tonal Center of Gravity: A global approach to tonal implementation in a level-based intonational phonology

On the perception of “segmental intonation”: F0 context effects on sibilant identification in German

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