Pitch Accent Alignment in Romance: Primary and Secondary Associations with Metrical Structure

Prieto, Pilar; D’Imperio, Mariapaola; Fivela, Bárbara Gili

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“…For a tone target within a syllable with a long (bimoraic) vowel, their model provides the possible docking sites in 14: a tone can be linked with either edge of the syllable or of the moras within it (Prieto et al 2005:373ff.). (14) T Prieto et al 2005 andMorén &Zsiga 2006 expands the set of possible patterns of association, so that one mora offers two points of association rather than just one. Applied to Dinka, this enables us to represent the two falling tone patterns as in 15.…”

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Tonal alignment is contrastive in falling contours in Dinka

Remijsen¹

2013

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This study investigates a contrast in tonal alignment that involves falling contours in Dinka. This contrast calls into question the assumption that tonal alignment cannot distinguish contour tones of the same shape within the syllable domain (e.g. Odden 1995). A qualitative description and a small-scale perception study are followed by a detailed production study. The results indicate that the main correlate of the contrast is indeed tonal alignment: the early-aligned fall sets in during the onset or early in the vowel; the late-aligned fall sets in well into the vowel. The production study also suggests that it is unlikely for more than two patterns of alignment in contour tones of the same shape to be accurately produced and perceived, given various phonetic limitations. The contrast is represented phonologically using a binary feature. This representation is adequate in an explanatory sense, in that the category boundary is in line with the quantal threshold hypothesized in House 1990. The results also corroborate the hypothesis of three-level vowel length in Dinka.*

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“…This consideration is also part of the argument against a representation with reference to mora edges, which allows for three or more levels of contrast (e.g. Prieto et al 2005). Finally, the location of the category boundary in Dinka, within the first 30 ms of the vowel, is in line with the model of House 1990.…”

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Tonal alignment is contrastive in falling contours in Dinka

Remijsen¹

2013

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“…The sample utterances are the broad focus utterances li venen mandarines [li «bEn´m m´n5 d´»Rin´s] (Catalan) and le venden mandarinas [le «ben5 den man5 da»Rinas] (Spanish) 'They sell tangerines to him/her'. Following the proposal by Prieto, D'Imperio and Gili-Fivela (2005), the tonal transcription of the utterance would correspond to one prenuclear accent L+>H* followed by the nuclear accent !H* and by the boundary tone L%. 4 The lack of systematic alignment between H and the end of the word was attested by inspecting the target utterances.…”

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The relevance of prosodic structure in tonal articulation Edge effects at the prosodic word level in Catalan and Spanish

Prieto

Estebas-Vilaplana

Vanrell

2010

Journal of Phonetics

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A production experiment with 1600 potentially ambiguous utterances distinguished by word boundary location in Catalan and Spanish (e.g., Cat. mirà batalles '(s)he looked at battles' vs. mirava talles 'I/(s)he used to look at carvings'; Span. da balazos '(s)he fires shots' vs. daba lazos 'I/(s)he gave ribbons'; stressed syllables are underlined) was undertaken. Results revealed strong (and statistically significant) effects of within-word position on H location, in such a way that peaks tended to be timed earlier when their associated syllables occurred later in the word than when they occurred earlier in the word, confirming previous results for other languages In the light of these results, the production experiment was followed up by a set of perception experiments with the goal of determining whether listeners are able to use H alignment information for lexical access. The results of these latter experiments supported the hypothesis that Catalan and Spanish listeners are able to employ fine allophonic details of H tonal alignment due to within-word position to identify lexical items that are ambiguous for word-boundary position. The empirical evidence discussed in this paper contributes to our understanding of the temporal organization of tonal gestures and their patterns of coordination with segments. The data advocates a view in which prosodic structure plays an essential part in our understanding of the coordination of pitch gestures with the segments.

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“…Work by Prieto et al (2005), Morén andZsiga (2006), andRemijsen (2013) shows analyses of languages (with and without lexical tone) where a tone can be linked with either edge of the tone-bearing unit, thus distinguishing the same tonal sequence through alignment differences. Kristoffersen (2000) interprets similar results for East Norwegian as the L tone in accent 1, and the H tone in accent 2, linking with the Effect of Focus and Position on Norwegian Accent stressed syllable.…”

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The Effect of Focus and Phrase Position on East Norwegian Lexical Tonal Accents

Kelly

Smiljanić²

2017

Phonetica

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Two experiments examined the acoustic correlates of the disyllabic tonal accent contrast in the Trøndersk dialect of Norwegian, and how narrow focus and phrasal position shape the contrast. Production results showed that both tonal accents have a high-low (HL) pitch contour, with different timing. In narrow focus, the pitch contrast was enlarged through asymmetrical F0 changes. When at the right edge of an accent phrase (AP), the accents were shown to have a higher L, lower AP H% tone, shorter stressed vowel, and longer final vowel. The alignment changes reflected tonal crowding while segmental modifications were due to the phrase-final lengthening in AP-final position. This work contributes to the literature on prosodic typology as well as on the implementation of prosodic focus and sentence intonation in languages with lexical pitch contrasts.

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Pitch Accent Alignment in Romance: Primary and Secondary Associations with Metrical Structure

Cited by 112 publications

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Tonal alignment is contrastive in falling contours in Dinka

Tonal alignment is contrastive in falling contours in Dinka

The relevance of prosodic structure in tonal articulation Edge effects at the prosodic word level in Catalan and Spanish

The Effect of Focus and Phrase Position on East Norwegian Lexical Tonal Accents

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