The prosodic expression of focus, contrast and givenness: A production study of Hungarian

Genzel, Susanne; Ishihara, Shinichiro; Surányi, Balâzs

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.07.010

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“…It is of interest then that prosodic encoding of information status is also identified for languages with 'free' word order. For example, f0 and duration are among the acoustic-prosodic correlates of information status in Samoan (Calhoun, 2015), Hungarian (Genzel et al, 2015) and Greek (Baltazani, 2003) -languages with some degree of variable word order.…”

Section: Relative Accessibility and Information Statusmentioning

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Structural and Referent-Based Effects on Prosodic Expression in Russian

Luchkina

Cole

2017

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This study examines prosody in read productions of two published narratives by 15 Russian speakers. Two distinct sources of variation in acoustic-prosodic expression are considered: structural and referent-based. Structural effects refer to the particular linearization of words in a sentence or phrase. Referent-based effects relate to the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the discourse referent of a word, and to grammatical roles that are partially dependent on referent characteristics. Here, we examine referent animacy and the related grammatical function of subjecthood, and the relative accessibility or information status of a word. We document patterns of prosodic augmentation and prosodic reduction due to structural and referent-based factors, as evident from change in values of acoustic-prosodic measures mean intensity, duration and f0 range. Prosodic augmentation due to structural effects is observed for words positioned ex-situ, independent of their semantic, grammatical or pragmatic features. Prosodic augmentation due to referent-based effects is observed for words that are grammatical subjects with animate referents. Prosodic expression is further affected by referent information status. Discourse-given and discourse-new information show greater prosodic augmentation than inferable information. A closer look at individual speakers' production styles reveals that structural and referent-based variations occur in combination and interact.

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Structural and Referent-Based Effects on Prosodic Expression in Russian

Luchkina

Cole

2017

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“…Most lexical roots in Paraguayan Guaraní exhibit final stress, although some, especially borrowings, can also exhibit penultimate or antepenultimate stress. Word-level stress can also shift away from the final syllable by the addition of lexically unstressed suffixes (Gregores and Suárez, 1967;Adelaar, 1994). Lexical stress is indicated in the orthography of the language: non-final stressed syllables with an oral vowel nucleus are marked with an acute accent on that vowel (e.g., ó ga 'house') and stressed syllables in all positions with a nasal vowel nucleus are marked with a tilde (e.g., hatã'hard'); final stressed syllables with an oral vowel nucleus are unmarked (e.g., apyka 'chair').…”

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Variation in the prosody of focus in head- and head/edge-prominence languages

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“…The reasoning in relation to repair is made explicit by Geluykens who suggests unfortunately without elaboration that in a subtype of repair in which a pronominal reference is replaced with a full noun it is important that this reparans gets some prosodic prominence, to facilitate comprehension for the hearer, and thus to ensure the resolving of the referential problem Studies focusing specifically on the relationship between prosody and information status (see Calhoun 2010, Ito & Speer 2011and Genzel et al 2014 for recent reviews) support this reasoning but to my knowledge, none has investigated repair.…”

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Discourse constraints on prosodic marking in lexical replacement repair

Plug

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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This paper reports on an investigation of instances of lexical replacement repair, in which a speaker replaces one lexical choice with another, sampled from Dutch spontaneous interaction. The study is driven by the question as to what motivates a speaker to produce a particular instance of self-repair with or without prosodic marking with or without notable prosodic prominence and the notion that a close consideration of the discourse context in which the repair is embedded, and its function in that context, is paramount in addressing this question. The study explores the empirical grounds for two proposals regarding the function of prosodic marking one in which marking is a response to the speaker s embarrassment or unease at the error or infelicity and one in which marking is done for the listener s benefit to highlight particularly important information. This paper describes three discourse contexts in which prosodic marking is notably common, and argues that both proposals find some support in these contexts. The analysis suggests that speakers decisions for or against prosodic marking are based at least on considerations of epistemic authority, precision and exaggeration, and discourse coherence. KEY WORDSSelf-repair, prosody, discourse coherence, epistemic authority, precision and exaggeration ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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The prosodic expression of focus, contrast and givenness: A production study of Hungarian

Cited by 29 publications

References 45 publications

Structural and Referent-Based Effects on Prosodic Expression in Russian

Structural and Referent-Based Effects on Prosodic Expression in Russian

Variation in the prosody of focus in head- and head/edge-prominence languages

Discourse constraints on prosodic marking in lexical replacement repair

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