The Role of Tonal Onglides in German Nuclear Pitch Accents

Ritter, Simon; Grice, Martine

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“…Figure 1B provides a schematic depiction of the tonal onglide measure. Tonal onglide characterizes the portion of the f0 movement toward the main tonal target of the pitch accent (Ritter and Grice, 2015;Roessig et al, 2019). In terms of an autosegmental-metrical analysis, like GToBI (Grice et al, 2005), L+H * , and H * pitch accent types are described by a rising movement and result in positive onglide values.…”

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“…Tonal onglide is a continuous variable that represents both the direction of the pitch movement as well as the magnitude of this movement, but it does not capture all relevant details of pitch accents (see Grice et al, 2017 for an investigation of the characteristics of pitch accents in terms of tonal onglide and its relation to other parameters). Nevertheless, it has been shown that the tonal onglide movement is a perceptually relevant parameter of pitch accents in German Ritter and Grice, 2015). Two labelers with training in prosody annotated the f0 movements with a simple labeling scheme without having access to the intended focus structures of the sentences: First, the labelers identified all utterances in which the speaker did not place the nuclear pitch accent on the object.…”

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“…Variation also plays an important role in the domain of intonation research. On the one hand, many studies have shown that there is a probabilistic mapping between functions and forms that are described as prosodic categories (Grabe, 2004;Röhr and Baumann, 2010;Yoon, 2010;Ritter and Grice, 2015;Cangemi and Grice, 2016). On the other hand, a great deal of variation can be found in the realization of these prosodic categories.…”

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Modeling Dimensions of Prosodic Prominence

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2019

Front. Commun.

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Detailed modifications both in the laryngeal as well as in the supra-laryngeal domain have been shown to be used by speakers of German to express prosodic prominence. This paper aims to bring the two domains together in a joint analysis and modeling account. We report results on the prosodic marking of focus types from 27 speakers that were recorded acoustically and with electromagnetic articulography. We investigate the intonational patterns (tonal onglide) as well as the articulatory movements during the vowel production (lip aperture and tongue body position). We provide further evidence for categorical and continuous modifications across and within accentuation and sketch a dynamical model that accounts for these modifications on multiple dimensions as the consequence of scaling the same parameter. In this model, the prosodic dimensions contribute differently to the complex shape of the compositional attractor landscape and respond differently to the scaling of the system. The study aims to add to our understanding of the integration of speech sounds in a twofold manner: the integration of different channels of prosody (laryngeal and supra-laryngeal) as well as the interplay of categorical and continuous aspects of speech.

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Modeling Dimensions of Prosodic Prominence

Roessig

Mücke

2019

Front. Commun.

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“…The two analyses are reminiscent of the much debated on-ramp and off-ramp analyses of rise-fall pitch patterns in Germanic languages (Baumann et al, 2007;Chen, 2011;Gussenhoven, 2008Gussenhoven, , 2016Hanssen et al, 2008;Ritter & Grice, 2015). Importantly, in Germanic as in Romance languages, the two analyses make different predictions with respect to which part of the contour is the most relevant communicatively and perceptually, and which part of the contour is more carefully and precisely produced in cases of enhancement or in different segmental contexts that may impact on tonal realization.…”

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Surface and Structure: Transcribing Intonation within and across Languages

Frota

2016

Laboratory Phonology

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Intonation is the phonologically structured variation in phonetic features, primarily pitch, to express phrase-level meanings. As in other speech sound domains, analyzing intonation involves mapping continuously variable physical parameters to categories. The categories of intonation are organized in a set of relations and rule-governed distributions that define the intonation system of a language. From physical realizations, as shown by pitch tracks, surface or phonetic tonal patterns can be identified in terms of tonal targets. Whether surface patterns correspond or not to categories within a given intonation system requires looking at their distributions and contrastiveness. In this paper, I assume the view that a transcription is an analysis of the intonation system, which ultimately aims to identify the contrastive intonation categories of a given language and establish how they signal meaning. Under this view, it is crucial to discuss the ways surface pitch patterns and structural pitch patterns (or phonological categories) are related. Given that intonational analysis is driven by system-internal considerations and that cues to a given category can vary across languages, it is also important to address the issue of how a language-specific transcription can be reconciled with the need and ability to do cross-language comparison of intonation. Bearing on these two issues, I discuss surface and structure in intonational analysis, drawing on mismatches between (dis)similarities in the phonetics and phonology of pitch contours, across languages and language varieties.

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“…While English analyses focus on the f0-movement after the tone that is associated with the stressed syllable (e.g., H*L, L*H), many German analyses focus on the f0-movement leading up to the starred tone (e.g., L+H*, H+L*). Recent perception data from German showed that listeners are sensitive to the manipulation of such onglide movements in rising prenuclear and nuclear accents [12,13]. While no data from English are as yet available to be compared with this finding, it is possible that German listeners redeployed their sensitivity for rising onglides to the discrimination of the current stimulus pairs.…”

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Similar Prosodic Structure Perceived Differently in German and English

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English and German have similar prosody, but their speakers realize some pitch falls (not rises) in subtly different ways. We here test for asymmetry in perception. An ABX discrimination task requiring F0 slope or duration judgements on isolated vowels revealed no cross-language difference in duration or F0 fall discrimination, but discrimination of rises (realized similarly in each language) was less accurate for English than for German listeners. This unexpected finding may reflect greater sensitivity to rising patterns by German listeners, or reduced sensitivity by English listeners as a result of extensive exposure to phrase-final rises ("uptalk") in their language.

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The Role of Tonal Onglides in German Nuclear Pitch Accents

Cited by 27 publications

References 18 publications

Modeling Dimensions of Prosodic Prominence

Modeling Dimensions of Prosodic Prominence

Surface and Structure: Transcribing Intonation within and across Languages

Similar Prosodic Structure Perceived Differently in German and English

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