Prosodische (De-)Kodierung des Informationsstatus im Deutschen

Baumann, Stefan; Röhr, Christine Tanja; Grice, Martine

doi:10.1515/zfs-2015-0001

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“…Well-studied languages such as German exhibit similar probabilistic mappings of different tonal events expressing the same function (e.g. H+!H* and L+H* expressing given referents, Baumann, Röhr & Grice 2015). What makes Tashlhiyt seemingly different from the German case is that it shows a probabilistic association of arguably the same tonal event to different structural units in the utterance.…”

Section: Discrete Variability In Intonationmentioning

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Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

Roettger¹

2019

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In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opportunity for the execution of intonational pitch movements is exceptionally limited. This book explores in a series of production and perception experiments how these typologically rare phonotactic patterns interact with intonational aspects of linguistic structure. It turns out that Tashlhiyt allows for a tremendously flexible placement of tonal events. Observed intonational structures can be conceived of as different solutions to a functional dilemma: The requirement to realise meaningful pitch movements in certain positions and the extent to which segments lend themselves to a clear manifestation of these pitch movements.

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Section: Discrete Variability In Intonationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

Roettger¹

2019

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“…More recent work takes such variability into account and provides information as to the statistical distribution of alternative realisations of a given function (e.g. Yoon, 2010 for English; Grice et al, 2017, Baumann, 2006 andBaumann, Röhr, &Grice for German;Cangemi & Grice, 2016 for Italian).…”

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Mapping prosody onto meaning – the case of information structure in American English

Roettger

Mahrt²,

Cole

2019

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Prosody is a central part of human speech, with prosodic modulations of the signal expressing important communicative functions. Yet, the exact mechanisms of how listeners map prosodic aspects of the speech signal onto speaker-intended discourse functions are only poorly understood. Here we present three perception experiments that test the mapping between the prosodic form of a heard utterance and possible information structural categories (here: focus and givenness) determined by a discourse context. Results suggest varying degrees of accuracy dependent on the specific information structure categories that are presented to the listener in the experiment (the target and the competitor). Moreover, listeners are sometimes biased towards or against certain used discourse contexts. These biases are compatible with the idea that listeners infer speaker intentions based not only on bottom-up processing of acoustic cues but also on probabilistic knowledge about how likely prosodic forms co-occur with specific discourse contexts.

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“…Presumably, the non-significant correlation between scaling and alignment (cf. Figure 7) reflects their status as less prominent than broad focus accents [30,31]. Concerning structural effects, this study revealed that [±voice] of a following consonant has a significant effect on F0 peak alignment in German nuclear falling accents.…”

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Effects of information structure, syllable structure, and voicing on nuclear falling pitch accents in German

Kügler¹,

Genzel²

2016

Speech Prosody 2016

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Previous work showed that tonal alignment distinguishes information status (given/new), that syllable structure affects alignment and that the scaling and alignment of tones correlate with focus. We investigate the interaction of these effects on the tonal realization of nuclear falling accents in German. In a production experiment, syllable structure [± open syllable] and voicing of the following consonant [± voice] was systematically varied in four different information structure contexts: broad focus, narrow focus, contrastive focus and givenness. The results show that [± voice] of the following consonant had a significant effect: The F0 peak of the nuclear falling accents is systematically realized in the post-accented syllable if it was followed by a [+voice] consonant while it is realized towards the end of the accented syllable if it was followed by [-voice] consonant. The results further replicate well-established effects of information structure on the tonal alignment and scaling. The reported results will add to a growing body of studies on fine phonetic detail. In addition, results will also have consequences for annotation of German intonation.

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Prosodische (De-)Kodierung des Informationsstatus im Deutschen

Cited by 20 publications

References 2 publications

Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

Mapping prosody onto meaning – the case of information structure in American English

Effects of information structure, syllable structure, and voicing on nuclear falling pitch accents in German

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