On the phonetics and phonology of “segmental anchoring” of F0: evidence from German

Atterer, Michaela; Ladd, D. Robert

doi:10.1016/s0095-4470(03)00039-1

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“…Atterer and Ladd (2003) found gradient differences in the alignment of prenuclear rises, both across varieties (Northern vs. Southern German) and across languages (German vs. English). They therefore suggested the existence of a single category of rising accent, even though tonal target alignment can vary along a continuum across languages and varieties of the same languages due to language-specific phonetic implementation rules.…”

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Effects of tonal alignment on lexical identification in Italian

D’Imperio¹,

Petrone²,

Nguyen³

2007

Phonology and Phonetics

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In Neapolitan Italian, the LH nuclear accent rise is later in questions (L*+H) than in statements (L+H*). Furthermore, the H target is later in closed syllables than in open (penultimate) syllables, in both intonation modalities. As a consequence, the H target is differently located in lexical minimal pairs contrasting in consonantal length and syllable structure, such as nonno /'nnno/ 'grandfather' and nono /'nno/ 'ninth': it is aligned towards the coda consonant in nonno and around the end of the stressed vowel in nono.In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that Neapolitan listeners might employ such differences in alignment due to syllable structure in lexical identification. In Experiment I, listeners were asked to identify stimuli manipulated both in segmental length and tonal alignment as either nonno or nono. In Experiment II, listeners had to categorize stimuli manipulated in segmental length as well as for tonal alignment 1. as nonno or nono and, at the same time, 2. as questions or statements. Our results showed that, in stimuli ambiguous for segmental length, more nonno embedded in questions were perceived when the peak alignment was later within the coda consonant. This does not support models which predict that suprasegmental and segmental levels are independent from each other for the purpose of phonological contrast.

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Effects of tonal alignment on lexical identification in Italian

D’Imperio¹,

Petrone²,

Nguyen³

2007

Phonology and Phonetics

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“…Sendo assim, os extremos fonéticos coincidem com os extremos geográficos, sendo observada uma maior distância no alinhamento do Norte em relação ao Sul. Semelhante tipo de variação temporal também foi descrito para variedades do Norte e do Sul da Alemanha (Atterer & Ladd, 2004): nas variedades do Norte, foi observado um alinhamento mais adiantado em relação à variedade do Sul. Assim como observado para o PB, as diferenças no alinhamento dos tons exibem pequenas distâncias temporais, a qual sugere uma variação gradual no alinhamento entre as variedades.…”

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Variação entoacional no Português do Brasil: uma análise fonológica do contorno nuclear em enunciados declarativos e interrogativos

Castelo¹,

Frota²

2016

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In this paper we present a phonological analysis of the nuclear contour of declarative and interrogative utterances in Brazilian Portuguese, as spoken in 7 regions, along the Atlantic Coast -Paraíba, Sergipe, Bahia (North); Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro (Center), Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (South). Declaratives present a falling contour, with phonetic differences across varieties. As for interrogatives, more variation was found. Namely, two types of nuclear contours were observed: a rising contour in the North and a rising-falling in the Center-South. Unlike declaratives, the two interrogative patterns display a phonological continuum, in which the Center-Southern pattern spreads towards the North.Keywords: intonation, declarative, yes-no question, intonational variation, Brazilian Portuguese.Palavras-chave: declarativas, interrogativas totais, variação entoacional, Português do Brasil 1. IntroduçãoAs diferenças fonológicas entre declarativas e interrogativas totais são objeto de extensiva análise no Português (Frota, 2000(Frota, , 2002. Duas razões explicam o especial interesse nesse estudo: o isomorfismo sintático existente entre os dois tipos frásicos e variação desencadeada nos dois tipos frásicos. É reportado na literatura que as declarativas e, em maior escala, as interrogativas sofrem variação geográfica no Português e em muitas outras línguas como no Italiano e no Inglês (Grabe, 2004;Savino, 2012;Frota et al., 2015). Desse modo, é esperado que diferentes estratégias fonológicas sejam utilizadas entre as regiões para opor os dois tipos frásicos. O objetivo do presente artigo é propor uma análise fonológica do contorno nuclear em enunciados declarativos e interrogativos, tendo em conta o mapeamento de 7 variedades do Português do Brasil (PB) ao longo da Costa Atlântica: Paraíba, Sergipe, Bahia (Norte), Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro (Centro), Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul (Sul).Muitas discussões têm surgido acerca da abordagem da variação linguística dentro dos estudos formais. Conhecer um dado sistema linguístico implica em analisá-lo consoante as variações que esse sistema abrange ao longo de sua extensão territorial, não se restringindo às propriedades da variedade padrão (Barbies, 2009). A consideração das diversidades no sistema motivadas pelo espaço euclidiano (aspectos geográficos que unem ou separam populações) bem como pelo espaço social (a manipulação do espaço mediada pelas ações humanas) conduzem a um entendimento mais completo da gramática em estudo (Britain, 2007). Nesse sentido, as variedades do PB apresentam em suas marcas a herança do contato entre o Português e línguas

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“…As far as L2 intonation is concerned, previous studies have found that when marking information structure, non-native speakers transfer their L1 focus-projection rules (e.g., Zubizaretta & Nava, 2011) and the L1 intonational patterns, even at a high level of proficiency (Kelm, 1987;McGory, 1997;Nguyên, Ingram, & Pensalfini, 2008;Rasier & Hiligsmann, 2007;Swerts & Zerbian, 2010;Ueyama & Jun, 1998 among others). From the literature on L2 intonation, it is also well established that L1 transfer can affect more fine-grained aspects of the prosodic structure, such as the phonetic implementation of identical phonological pitch movements (e.g., Atterer & Ladd, 2004;Gut, 2009;Mennen, 2004).…”

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Prosodic and lexical marking of contrast in L2 Italian

Turco

Dimroth

Braun

2015

Second Language Research

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We investigated the second language (L2) acquisition of pragmatic categories that are not as consistently and frequently encoded in the L2 than in the first language (L1).Experiment 1 showed that Italian speakers linguistically highlighted affirmative polarity contrast (e.g., The child ate the candies following after The child did not eat the candies) in 34.3% of the cases, by producing a nuclear pitch accent on the finite verb (i.e. verum focus accent). Experiment 2 revealed that high-proficient German and Dutch non-native speakers of Italian linguistically encoded polarity contrast more frequently, either using a verum focus accent (German) or lexical markers (Dutch). This corresponds closely to the patterns preferred in their native languages. Our results show L1 transfer on three levels: a) the relevance of the pragmatic category (i.e. marking polarity contrast on the assertion component), b) the linguistic markers to encode polarity contrast and c) the phonetic implementation of the intonational marking. These three levels of transfer have ! ! 2 implications for how non-native speakers acquire the L2 discourse organisational principles and the linguistic markers to encode them.

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On the phonetics and phonology of “segmental anchoring” of F0: evidence from German

Cited by 224 publications

References 15 publications

Effects of tonal alignment on lexical identification in Italian

Effects of tonal alignment on lexical identification in Italian

Variação entoacional no Português do Brasil: uma análise fonológica do contorno nuclear em enunciados declarativos e interrogativos

Prosodic and lexical marking of contrast in L2 Italian

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