Trends in Phonetics and Phonology
Studies from German-speaking Europe
Edited By Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid and Volker Dellwo
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- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 406 pp.
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
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- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
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Abstract
Although pitch accents are influenced by discourse structure, they are not always be unambiguously related to contextual cues (Féry, 2006; Baumann, 2006; Schweitzer et al., 2009; Féry & Kügler, 2008). The present study examines whether context-independent prosodic aspects, namely a tendency for tonal alternation, affect the choice of pitch accent types. Specifically, we investigated whether the probability of alternating tones increases with accent proximity in order to avoid local melodic clashes. To this end, we studied pitch accents in a German radio news corpus (Eckart et al., 2012) and found that the distance between two successive accents affects the likelihood that the two accents differ in type. Furthermore, we observed that different phrase boundary types (intermediate vs. intonation phrase boundaries) affect pitch accent alternation differently, and that the position of an accent within the phrase influences the realization of the following accent. Our study therefore suggests that prosody-inherent factors should be taken into account when phonological and information structural categories are associated with each other.
Keywords
Pitch accents, melodic effects, intonation, corpus study, prosody, tonal alternation
* Corresponding author: nadja.schauffler@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, Tel: +49 711 685 82986
a Institute of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Keplerstr. 17, 70174 Stuttgart
b Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 5b, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
c Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Wilhelmstr. 19–23, 72074 Tübingen, Germany ← 125 | 126 →
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions