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Epistemic Meaning and the LLL Tune in American English 认知意义与美式英语的ll调

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-3

Thomas Sostarics, J. Cole

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Prosodic cues to agreement and disagreement prefaces in Austrian German conversations 奥地利德语对话中同意和不同意前言的韵律线索

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-22

A. Kelterer, Saskia Wepner, Sophie Christian, Barbara Schuppler, Dina El Zarka

{"title":"Prosodic cues to agreement and disagreement prefaces in Austrian German conversations","authors":"A. Kelterer, Saskia Wepner, Sophie Christian, Barbara Schuppler, Dina El Zarka","doi":"10.21437/tai.2021-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tai.2021-22","url":null,"abstract":"While the expression of speaker alignment has been of interest in Conversation Analysis for decades, the prosody of (dis)agreement has so far only received little attention. This is the first investigation of the timing of agreement and disagreement turns in conversational Austrian German and the prosody of prefaces to these turns. To assess the timing and prosody, we extracted the duration of the pause before the (dis)agreeing turn, the duration of the preface, examined its F0 shape and performed linear and logistic regression analyses to estimate the relationship of these features with (dis)agreement. We find that agreement prefaces tend to be short and uttered after a short pause. Prefaces to straightforward disagreements are also produced after a short pause but tend to be long. Prefaces to a sub- category of disagreeing turns (“yes you’re right, but…”) tend to be long and uttered after a long pause. Various F0 shapes occur in all three types of prefaces, but there is a robust relationship between dip-rises and prefaces to straightforward disagreements. While the timing patterns are in line with previous findings in the literature on speaker alignment, we did not find unique F0 patterns for agreement or disagreement.","PeriodicalId":145363,"journal":{"name":"1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121126791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prominence-boundary interactions in speech perception: evidence from Japanese vowel length 语音感知中的突出-边界相互作用:来自日语元音长度的证据

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-41

Hironori Katsuda, Jeremy Steffman

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The role of accommodation in expressing emotions to newborn babies 适应在向新生婴儿表达情感中的作用

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-51

K. Mády, U. Reichel, Anna Kohári, Ádám Szalontai

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Comparison of Pitch Variation and Pitch Range in L1 and L2 Mandarin Chinese 汉语母语和第二语言的音高变化和音域比较

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-12

Man Gao

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Encoding of contextual tonal alternations in word production in Teochew 潮州语词生产中语境调性变化的编码

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-31

Xiaocong Chen, Caicai Zhang

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Creativity and Variability in the Perception of Prosody and Focus Marking in German 德语韵律感知和焦点标记的创造性和变异性

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-29

Farhat Jabeen, P. Wagner, J. Hartmann

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Parallel Recognition of Mandarin Tones and Focus from continuous F0 从连续F0看普通话声调与焦点的平行识别

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-35

Yue Chen, Yi Xu

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Intonational variation and change in York English 约克英语语调的变化与变化

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-39

Sam Hellmuth, Ciara Farrelly

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The effect of L2 proficiency on pitch and phonation sensitivity in naïve tone perception—A study of Wenzhou dialect tone perception by English learners of Mandarin 二语熟练程度对naïve声调感知中音高和语音敏感性的影响——英语普通话学习者温州方言声调感知的研究

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-37

Yufei Niu, P. Mok

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