Relative perceptual prominence of fundamental frequency peaks in the presence of declination

Repp, BH; Rump, HH Hans; Terken, Jacques

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“…The realization of dual-focus can also be partly explained by studies that have tested the prominence of sentences with two pitch accents perceptually. It has been found for several Germanic languages that when two accents are perceived as equally prominent, the peak height of the second one is downstepped relative to the first one (Gussenhoven & Rietveld, 1988;Pierrehumbert, 1979;Repp, Rump, & Terken, 1993;Rietveld & Gussenhoven, 1985;Terken, 1991Terken, , 1993. Rump and Collier (1996) also studied the relative heights of two pitch peaks in Dutch.…”

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Prosody of Dual-focus in German: Interaction between Focus and Phrasing

Wang

Féry

2017

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This paper studies the prosodic realization of dual-focus in German, that is, two foci in a single sentence, with special consideration of the interaction between focus assignment and phrasing. In a production experiment, dual-focus was compared with its initial, final, and all-new counterparts in sentences with subject NPs and VPs of different lengths. The results showed that there were three different patterns of dual-focus realization: (1) The most frequent one was the two-peak pattern (57.8%), that is, a falling tone on both focused words and compressed and lowered pitch in-between; (2) the second most frequent was the two-phrase realization (23.5%), in which both foci were also realized as a falling tone, but in this case, a high boundary tone was inserted after the subject NP; (3) the least frequent pattern was the hat-pattern (18.7%), consisting of a rising tone on the first focus and a falling tone on the second one while the pitch in-between is kept as a high plateau. This was applied mostly in utterances containing a short subject NP. We interpret these results in terms of optional prosodic phrasing. A sentence with two foci can be realized in one or two intonation phrases, but in both cases, the focus is assigned within the prosodic domain derived from syntax. These results show that Culminativity, the principle requiring a one-to-one correspondence between prosodic domains and their heads, is violable in German. Two equally prominent pitch accents are allowed to co-exist in one intonation phrase. Finally, the metrical structure of dual-focus speaks for a recursive structure of German prosody.

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Prosody of Dual-focus in German: Interaction between Focus and Phrasing

Wang

Féry

2017

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“…In a pre-focal position, however, up to the focal accent of a phrase ͑or of a whole utterance͒ there is typically no downstepping, but instead only a very gentle declination ͑if any͒ for successive non-focal accents '' ͑Bruce and Touati, 1992, pp. 455 and 456͒. Careful studies to relate equal prominence of accented syllables within one utterance to simple acoustic features of the pitch contour have not lead to a simple and plausible model ͑Pierrehumbert, 1979; Rietveld and Gussenhoven, 1985;Terken, 1991Terken, , 1993bTerken, , 1994Ladd, 1993;Repp et al, 1993͒. This may be due to the implicit focus structure of the utterance coupled with the absence or presence of downstep, which may have been confounding factors.…”

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Prominence lent by rising and falling pitch movements: Testing two models

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Hermes²

1996

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Two experiments are reported in which a pitch-level difference ͑PLD͒ model for prominence perception ͓Hermes and Rump, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 83-92 ͑1994͔͒ is subjected to further tests. The model holds that the contribution of pitch to the perceived degree of prominence is proportional to the difference in pitch level between the vocalic nuclei of the accented and the previous syllable. In experiment I, the influence of stretching and compressing the utterance in time was assessed. It was found that the predictions made by the model were not fully supported by the data. An alternative model was developed according to which pitch movements resynthesized in the same register lend equal prominence when pitch levels on the upper declination lines in the stimuli are equal. These two models gave different predictions when the lower declination lines are different. This was tested in experiment II. The results which are more or less between the predictions by the two models suggest that low pitch levels play a smaller role in prominence perception than high pitch levels do.

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Relative perceptual prominence of fundamental frequency peaks in the presence of declination

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Prosody of Dual-focus in German: Interaction between Focus and Phrasing

Prosody of Dual-focus in German: Interaction between Focus and Phrasing

Prominence lent by rising and falling pitch movements: Testing two models

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