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The prosodic realisation of focus in Saudi Arabic dialects in comparative perspective 比较视角下沙特阿拉伯方言焦点的韵律实现

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-40

Aljawharah A. Alzamil, Sam Hellmuth

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Segments as carriers of prosodic information in word onsets 分词是词首韵律信息的载体

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-13

Catalina Torres, Pauline Welby

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Those who shout the loudest - Do they sound more charismatic? 那些喊得最大声的人——他们听起来更有魅力吗?

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

Oliver Niebuhr, Radek Skarnitzl

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The interaction of micro- and macro-rhythm measures in English and Japanese as first and second languages 英语和日语作为第一语言和第二语言的微观和宏观节奏的相互作用

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-56

Jun Nagao, M. Ortega-Llebaria

{"title":"The interaction of micro- and macro-rhythm measures in English and Japanese as first and second languages","authors":"Jun Nagao, M. Ortega-Llebaria","doi":"10.21437/tai.2021-56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tai.2021-56","url":null,"abstract":"L2 rhythm has often been measured as the duration variation of vowel and consonant intervals using Varco and PVI measures (micro-rhythm). In the present study, in addition to micro-rhythm, we examined macro-rhythm (i.e., the duration variation of intervals between F0 events), and vowel duration in relation to three phonological patterns (i.e., content vs. function words, stressed and unstressed vowels, and final sentence lengthening) in a series of attempts by two Japanese students of English to imitate approximately 2-minute segments of English TED talks. In general, both participants obtained native-like Varco and nPVI scores for vowels and consonants in their last imitation attempt. In contrast, only one of the participants related the variation of vowel duration to stress. The same participant obtained macro-rhythm scores closer to those of the English TED talk. A debriefing interview indicated that neither participant showed conscious awareness of their changes in macro-rhythm. These results suggest that Japanese speakers may need to learn stress and micro-rhythm patterns before implementing macro-rhythm, and that the often-used micro-rhythm measures of rhythm need to be complemented with both macro-rhythm measures and phonological patterns’ measures in order to capture L2 rhythmic patterns more accurately. Pedagogically, imitation seems to work for some learners to learn macro-rhythm patterns.","PeriodicalId":145363,"journal":{"name":"1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)","volume":"5 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":"114693861","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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An Empirical Investigation on the Perceptual Similarity of Prosodic Language Types 韵律语言类型感知相似性的实证研究

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-43

Alina Gregori, F. Kügler

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Semantic vs. Prosodic Prominence – Pronouns Realisation in spontaneous Mono- and Bilingual English 语义与韵律突出——自发单、双语英语中代词的实现

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-26

Marlene Böttcher

{"title":"Semantic vs. Prosodic Prominence – Pronouns Realisation in spontaneous Mono- and Bilingual English","authors":"Marlene Böttcher","doi":"10.21437/tai.2021-26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tai.2021-26","url":null,"abstract":"The phonological realisation of pronouns (reduced vs. explicit) is conditioned by information structure. The choice of a reduced expression depends on the availability in a language. In stress languages like English PRONs are generally unstressed, while focus allows for stressed forms. Pro-drop languages like Turkish, make a distinction between null and overt pronouns. The availability of two structures in bilinguals is prone to transfer. A recent study on spontaneous intonation reported stressed non-focused pronouns in English (Böttcher & Zerbian, 2020). Their bilingual group comprised speakers from different language background (including pro-drop languages) which is taken up in this study. The present paper presents an analysis of prosodically prominent PRONs and their relation to contrastive focus in spontaneous English narrations by 4 mono- and 16 bilingual speakers (Russian, Turkish, Greek, German) from the RUEG corpus. Speakers of all groups produced stressed PRONs independent of contrast related to the previously reported aspects of prosodic phrasing. Bilinguals frequently left contrastive pronouns unmarked, avoiding stress realisations, while monolinguals marked contrastive PRONs prosodically. The results are in line with the overall tendency for bilingual speakers’ prosody to follow unmarked structural constraints (eg. phrasing) rather than marked pragmatic constraints (MHD, cf. Zerbian, 2015).","PeriodicalId":145363,"journal":{"name":"1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)","volume":"50 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":"124634814","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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A configurational approach to the prosody of topic and focus in Egyptian Arabic. Testing the importance of accent-based and utterance-based acoustic cues 埃及阿拉伯语主题和焦点韵律的构形方法。测试基于口音和基于话语的声学线索的重要性

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-5

Dina El Zarka, Barbara Schuppler

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Prosodic Structure of Farasani Arabic: Accentual Phrase without a Pitch Accent 法拉萨尼阿拉伯语的韵律结构:没有音高重音的重音短语

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-46

A. Abbas, Sun-Ah Jun

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Prosody and Morphosyntax in Sora: A preliminary study 苍井空语韵律与形态句法的初步研究

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-11

Luke Horo, G. Anderson

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Mandarin Chinese sentence intonation patterns in the production of Hungarian learners of Chinese 汉语普通话句子语调模式在匈牙利汉语学习者生产中的应用

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-15

Kornélia Juhász, H. Bartos

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