Perceptual correlates of sentence-type intonation in Russian and Japanese

Makarova, Veronika

doi:10.1006/jpho.2001.0137

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“…These findings agree with experiments in other languages which show that low or falling boundary tones elicit 'declarative judgments', and high or rising tones lead to 'interrogative' (e.g. Makarova 2001, Thorsen, 1980. Moreover, although tonal cues for sentence types are in general distributed throughout an utterance, the last stressed syllable and the poststressed ones are sufficient indicators for perception (Thorsen 1980).…”

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“…However, identification rates could not be expected to rise higher, because of the nature of the stimuli, which were obtained by synthetic modification (hum), as also proved by other studies with synthetic stimuli (e.g. Makarova, 2001). Thus, in the present experiment, an identification of 50-60% might be considered as an indicator of categorization between the 3 sentence types (statement, question, command).…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Sentence types are associated with local and global tonal structures (e.g. Botinis 1998, 't Hart, 1998, Makarova 2001. Studies in Greek prosody have revealed several tonal characteristics for each sentence type (e.g.…”

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Prosodic perception of sentence types in Greek

Chaida¹

2019

ExLing 2008: Proceedings of 2nd Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics,

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This study examines the relation between prosody and sentence-type perception in Greek, through a perceptual experiment using synthetic hum sound analogs of statements, polar/wh-questions and commands. The results indicate that sentence types may be partially identified through prosody. The identification rates were not very high, due to the nature of the synthetic stumuli. Wh-questions were easily perceived, while for the other sentence types falling boundary tones seem to be misleading.

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Prosodic perception of sentence types in Greek

Chaida¹

2019

ExLing 2008: Proceedings of 2nd Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics,

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“…The unequal status of statement and question intonation may not be a language-specific feature of Mandarin Chinese. Makarova (2001), for example, found that the perception of stimuli as declarative was similar for both Japanese and Russian speakers, while the perception of stimuli as interrogative and exclamatory was significantly different in some cases.…”

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“…Their results suggested that the perception of intonation begins with the activation of universal auditory mechanisms that separate falling from rising contours and that the output of the universal auditory process is then molded by the listener's experience with his or her native language. Other perceptual experiments have also demonstrated that the mapping between the acoustic signal and the intonational categories is phonologized (Chen et al, 2004;Makarova, 2001). Liang and van Heuven (2007) compared L1 and L2 learners' perception of Chinese tone and intonation.…”

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Perception of intonation in Mandarin Chinese

Yuan

2011

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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There is a tendency across languages to use a rising pitch contour to convey question intonation and a falling pitch contour to convey a statement. In a lexical tone language such as Mandarin Chinese, rising and falling pitch contours are also used to differentiate lexical meaning. How, then, does the multiplexing of the F(0) channel affect the perception of question and statement intonation in a lexical tone language? This study investigated the effects of lexical tones and focus on the perception of intonation in Mandarin Chinese. The results show that lexical tones and focus impact the perception of sentence intonation. Question intonation was easier for native speakers to identify on a sentence with a final falling tone and more difficult to identify on a sentence with a final rising tone, suggesting that tone identification intervenes in the mapping of F(0) contours to intonational categories and that tone and intonation interact at the phonological level. In contrast, there is no evidence that the interaction between focus and intonation goes beyond the psychoacoustic level. The results provide insights that will be useful for further research on tone and intonation interactions in both acoustic modeling studies and neurobiological studies.

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Perception of Intonation

Vaissière¹

The Handbook of Speech Perception

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Perceptual correlates of sentence-type intonation in Russian and Japanese

Cited by 13 publications

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Prosodic perception of sentence types in Greek

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