Investigating the relationship between accentuation, vowel tensity and compensatory shortening

Siddins, Jessica; Harrington, Jonathan; Reubold, Ulrich; Kleber, Felicitas

doi:10.21437/speechprosody.2014-53

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“…While commentators usually ascribe uptalk to young women, especially from lower social classes, this is not always the pattern found, and for some speaker groups there seem to be differences in the functions served by uptalk. There is evidence that young women use uptalk for floor‐holding more than men do, but with little difference between the sexes for other functions (Ritchart and Arvaniti : 114). Men typically avoid uptalk in contexts where the pattern may indicate subordination (Eckert : 122).…”

Section: Soap Opera Australian‐speak Raises the Tonementioning

confidence: 99%

PaulWarren. Uptalk: The Phenomenon of Rising Intonation. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. 2016. xvi + 223 pp. Pb (9781107560840). £17.99.

Foulkes

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Section: Soap Opera Australian‐speak Raises the Tonementioning

confidence: 99%

PaulWarren. Uptalk: The Phenomenon of Rising Intonation. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. 2016. xvi + 223 pp. Pb (9781107560840). £17.99.

Foulkes

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…The data was annotated according to an adapted version of acoustic transcription conventions measuring the speaker's mean pitch in Hz, the highest and lowest F0 values observed in IP-final rises starting from the last stressed vowel [21], [22]. In addition to the annotation of the final contour shape, pitch variations of IP-final rises were measured to investigate pitch changes for instance a sudden increase over the duration of IP-final rise [22]. Pitch excursion of IP-final rises was measured from the nucleus accent to the end of the IP-rise final.…”

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“…As we speculate on the influence of SVLR on uptalk in the three varieties, vowel duration and trajectory were measured from the vowel onset (P1) to the vowel offset (P3), providing at the same time values at the middle of the vowel (P2), each part being around 33% of the total length of the vowel. The duration of the final rise is measured from the beginning of the rise until the final peak [22].…”

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Uptalk variation in three varieties of Northern Irish English

Moritz¹

2016

Speech Prosody 2016

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Uptalk is subject to study across varieties and dialects of English but few studies have examined the phenomenon within the same variety. Uptalk or high rising terminal on declaratives is considered the norm in Northern Irish English. The goal of the study is to have a broader understanding of uptalk differences within this variety. The paper provides a preliminary account of rising pitch movement at the end of declarative phrases in three dialects spoken in Northern Ireland (NI): Ulster Scots, Mid Ulster English and South Ulster English. The investigation was based on the analysis of recordings taken from the "Dialects of English" corpus: Northern and Insular Scots. Assuming differences in the phonetic realization of uptalk within the three varieties, our experimental investigation was concentrated on phrase-final measurements: duration of the rise and pitch excursion of the rising phrase boundary. Regional differences in uptalk phonetic realization emerged between the three varieties: South Ulster English is noticeably different from Ulster Scots and Mid Ulster English, the two first dialects display a typical final high rising contour though with differences in duration and F0 values whereas falls were more frequently used than rises in South Ulster English.

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“…However, as [2] notes for high rising terminals (HRTs, a similar phenomenon in New Zealand English), the hearer can make use of context to infer when the rise indicates a question versus when it does not. This phenomenon, popularly referred to as uptalk in AmEng, has stereotypically been associated with women's speech [3,4,5]. However, it is possible that the difference in frequency of uptalk, or nonquestion rises, in the speech of AmEng-speaking men and women is now leveling out, since [6] found no effect of gender in college students from Massachusetts and Southern California.…”

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“…While social factors have indeed been of interest with respect to this phenomenon, little attention has been paid to its use in child speech. Anecdotally, while this speech pattern is often associated with "Valley Girls" [4], it is also referred to as "childlike" speech, though research on children's use of rising intonation when asserting information is limited. Work by [2] investigated the use of rising intonation on utterances that assert (rather than question) information in the speech of New Zealand 4-and 9-year-olds.…”

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Non-question rises in narratives produced by mothers and daughters

Armstrong¹,

Piccinini²,

Ritchart³

2016

Speech Prosody 2016

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In recent years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the use of rises on non-question utterances in American English, as well as other English varieties. However, little attention has been paid to this phenomenon in the speech of children acquiring American English (AmEng). Here we analyze elicited spontaneous speech from four mother-daughter pairs in Central Connecticut. Both mothers and daughters were asked to tell a short story to the experimenter, since the "uptalk" phenomenon has been shown to be common in narratives. Results suggest that input plays a role when choosing between tunes known to convey non-finality in AmEng: mothers using more rises than level tones have daughters who do the same, and vice versa. Such an effect is not found when comparing rises to falls: daughters in general produce more rises than falls when compared to their mothers. Finally, daughters produce rises that are longer and shallower than their mothers'. Results are compared to previous work on non-question rises in AmEng. In addition, we consider implications for language development as well as language change.

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Investigating the relationship between accentuation, vowel tensity and compensatory shortening

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

PaulWarren. Uptalk: The Phenomenon of Rising Intonation. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. 2016. xvi + 223 pp. Pb (9781107560840). £17.99.

PaulWarren. Uptalk: The Phenomenon of Rising Intonation. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. 2016. xvi + 223 pp. Pb (9781107560840). £17.99.

Uptalk variation in three varieties of Northern Irish English

Non-question rises in narratives produced by mothers and daughters

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