Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch

Kaland, Constantijn; Swerts, Marc; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101200

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“…The Papuan language is divided into two subsections, namely South Halmahera and Oceania. Papua has more than 270 regional languages 74 (Pawley, 2006;Kaland et al, 2023;van Staden, 2006). The Papuan language contributes to providing grammatical properties varying from the aspects of sound, word structure, phrases, sentences, and pragmatics in its use.…”

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Sociocultural Variations of Verb Markers in the West Papuan Language

Syufi

Sari

Fitri³

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The problems discussed in this study are based on variations in verb meaning in west Papuan speech, namely Irires and Miyah Language. These two languages are in one area in Tambarauw Regency but have different verbs. For this reason, a study of verb and hyponymy categories is needed in morphology studies to identify variations in verb meaning in Irires and Miyah languages. This research was conducted to find out socio-cultural variations in verb meaning in the West Papuan language, namely Irires and Miyah. The researchers used qualitative, in the Iris and Miyah districts of the Tambarauw Regency. Data collection techniques were carried out by observation, interview, and documentation techniques by participating directly with the Irires and Miyah communities, supported by relevant research references as a complement to information. The instrument was an instrument in the form of a list of questions to record the classification of verb variations in prices and Miyah language. Triangulation methods carry out data analysis techniques by transcribing the results of recording variations in the pronunciation of Irires and Miyah languages which are then represented in good language and understood. The results of the study showed the use of Irires and Miyah eating verbs that resulted in verb structures that have a pronominal persona that has a practical name including {d}, {b}, {a,i,u,e,o}, {g}, {ig}, {m}, {n}, {p}, {t}. Keywords: Sociocultural Variation, Papuan Language, Verb Markers

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Sociocultural Variations of Verb Markers in the West Papuan Language

Syufi

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Fitri³

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Intonation contour similarity: f0 representations and distance measures compared to human perception in two languages

Kaland

2023

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Recently, cluster analysis on f0 contours has become a popular method in phonetic research. Cluster analysis provides an automated way of categorising f0 contours, which gives new insights into (phonological) categories of intonation that vary across languages. As cluster analysis can be performed in many different ways, it is important to understand the extent to which these analyses can capture human perception of f0. This study focuses on the way in which f0 contours and differences among them are represented numerically, i.e., a crucial methodological choice preceding cluster analysis. These representations are then compared to the way in which f0 contour differences are perceived by human listeners from two different languages. To this end, four time-series contour representations (equivalent rectangular bandwidth, standardisation, octave-median rescaling, first derivative) and three distance measures [Euclidean distance (L2 norm), Pearson correlation, and dynamic time warping) were tested. The perceived differences were obtained from listeners of German and Papuan Malay, two typologically different languages. Results show that computed contour differences reflect human perception moderately, with dynamic time warping applied to the first derivative of the contour performing best, and showing minimal differences between the languages.

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Exploring and explaining variation in phrase-final f0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay

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Grice

2024

Phonetica

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This study investigates the variation in phrase-final f0 movements found in dyadic unscripted conversations in Papuan Malay, an Eastern Indonesian language. This is done by a novel combination of exploratory and confirmatory classification techniques. In particular, this study investigates the linguistic factors that potentially drive f0 contour variation in phrase-final words produced in a naturalistic interactive dialogue task. To this end, a cluster analysis, manual labelling and random forest analysis are carried out to reveal the main sources of contour variation. These are: taking conversational interaction into account; turn transition, topic continuation, information structure (givenness and contrast), and context-independent properties of words such as word class, syllable structure, voicing and intrinsic f0. Results indicate that contour variation in Papuan Malay, in particular f0 direction and target level, is best explained by turn transitions between speakers, corroborating similar findings for related languages. The applied methods provide opportunities to further lower the threshold of incorporating intonation and prosody in the early stages of language documentation.

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Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Sociocultural Variations of Verb Markers in the West Papuan Language

Sociocultural Variations of Verb Markers in the West Papuan Language

Intonation contour similarity: f0 representations and distance measures compared to human perception in two languages

Exploring and explaining variation in phrase-final f0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay

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