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Mapping prosody and meaning by Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder 有或没有自闭症谱系障碍的讲粤语儿童的韵律和意义映射

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-38

Fang Zhou, Si Chen, A. Chan, Eunjin Chun, Bei Li, T. Tang, Phoebe Choi

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Pronoun vs. preposition – where is stress assigned in German prepositional phrases? 代词与介词——德语介词短语的重音在哪里?

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-18

Marlene Böttcher, Fabian Schubö

{"title":"Pronoun vs. preposition – where is stress assigned in German prepositional phrases?","authors":"Marlene Böttcher, Fabian Schubö","doi":"10.21437/tai.2021-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tai.2021-18","url":null,"abstract":"It has been assumed that function words do not carry phrasal stress unless they are focused or phrased separately. The results from recent studies on German, however, suggest that unfocused function words optionally bear phrasal stress, depending on their phonological size and aspects of grammat-ical structure. The present study investigates the phrasal stress patterns of pronouns and prepositions in German prepositional phrases (PPs). In a controlled production study with nine participants, we tested for an impact of the phonological size of the pronoun (mono- vs. disyllabic) and the functional type of the PP (directional vs. non-directional) on the presence and location of phrasal stress. The non-directional PPs involved the preposition von ( ‘by’) whereas the directional PPs involved the preposition zu (‘to’). The results suggest that stress is regularly realised on function words in German PPs with a pronominal complement. Disyllabic pronouns were found to bear phrasal stress more frequently than monosyllabic pronouns. In non-directional PPs, the pronominal complement received stress in the majority of instances. In directional PPs, phrasal stress was mostly assigned to the preposition (and not to the pronoun). We propose that this pattern results from the relative informativeness of the preposition.","PeriodicalId":145363,"journal":{"name":"1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)","volume":"9 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":"114143803","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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Distortion in Tone Production due to the Lombard Effect 伦巴第效应引起的音调失真

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-16

Giang Le, Chilin Shih, Yan Tang

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Factors affecting the incidental formation of novel tone categories 影响新调类偶然形成的因素

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-2

Jonathan Wright, M. Baese-Berk

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Effects of public speaking virtual reality trainings on prosodic and gestural features 公共演讲虚拟现实训练对韵律和手势特征的影响

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-44

Io Valls-Ratés, Oliver Niebuhr, P. Prieto

{"title":"Effects of public speaking virtual reality trainings on prosodic and gestural features","authors":"Io Valls-Ratés, Oliver Niebuhr, P. Prieto","doi":"10.21437/tai.2021-44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tai.2021-44","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have revealed that virtual reality (VR) is able to suggest to the human brain a real environment, as it was stated in 1989 when the term 'virtual reality' was coined. In the field of public speaking, studies have mainly focused on how VR environments can help reduce public speaking anxiety. However, there is no focus on VR training in educational settings and, more specifically, on how VR training can help improve subsequent public-speaking performances in front of a real audience. The present study aims at analyzing the prosodic and gestural effects that VR settings have on speakers. A total of 31 secondary school students participated either in a VR oral-presentation training facing a VR audience, or in a control condition in which oral presentations were practiced alone in a room. Prosodic and gestural measures of speaking style were analyzed and compared between the two groups, each of which performed three rounds of practicing in three consecutive weeks. Training with VR resulted in longer speaking time and more pausing, an increase in f0 values and more gesturing, all of which suggests a stronger audience orientation. By contrast, the non-VR speakers developed in the opposite direction.","PeriodicalId":145363,"journal":{"name":"1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)","volume":"33 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":"133499498","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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The time course of pitch variation towards possible places of speaker transition in German and Swedish 德语和瑞典语中音高变化到说话人可能转换位置的时间进程

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-23

Kathrin Feindt, Martina Rossi, Margaret Zellers

{"title":"The time course of pitch variation towards possible places of speaker transition in German and Swedish","authors":"Kathrin Feindt, Martina Rossi, Margaret Zellers","doi":"10.21437/tai.2021-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tai.2021-23","url":null,"abstract":"A large body of studies has been carried out to investigate the phonology of conversation. One of the main issues is the significance of certain linguistic settings for turn-taking. The present study adds to the ongoing discussion by investigating pitch movements at different time points: (i) at the turn end, (ii) 200ms before potential turn boundary, (iii) 500ms before potential turn boundary. These values are exacted and compared between different situations of speaker change, backchannels and floor keeps. Moreover, we carry out a cross-linguistic comparison by analyzing pitch as a turn-taking cue in two languages i.e. German and Swedish. Results of our pilot study give evidence for differences concerning final pitch patterns before the offset of speech. Most strikingly, we find much more variation in the pitch span of German speakers, while Swedish is more restricted in F0 variation at turn boundaries. We also observe that German speakers terminate turns with a higher F0 compared to Swedish speakers, who fall more often to their baseline pitch. Interpreted are these findings in the light of structural differences between German and Swedish concerning deployment of pitch accents as being either lexical or for prominence marking. The Swedish pitch accent permits the use of pitch for conversational purposes while German allows a free variation of F0.","PeriodicalId":145363,"journal":{"name":"1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)","volume":"38 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":"114666158","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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Vowel length affects pre-boundary lengthening in Czech 在捷克语中，元音长度影响边界前拉长

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-34

Nadja Spina, Fabian Schubö

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Towards a Prosodic Visualization Tool for Language Learners 面向语言学习者的韵律可视化工具

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-55

K. Fischer, Oliver Niebuhr, Maria Alm, Åsa Abelin, Egil Albertsen, A. Asadi

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Periodic energy mass on head and edge tones in Maltese wh-constructions 马耳他语wh结构中头部和边缘音调的周期性能量质量

1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.21437/tai.2021-33

Maria Lialiou, Aviad Albert, A. Vella, M. Grice

{"title":"Periodic energy mass on head and edge tones in Maltese wh-constructions","authors":"Maria Lialiou, Aviad Albert, A. Vella, M. Grice","doi":"10.21437/tai.2021-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/tai.2021-33","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the relation between tonal association and prosodic strength in different tone bearing positions in Maltese wh-words. In these words, tones are associated with the stressed syllable (head association) in indirect and quoted questions, but with the initial syllable (edge association) in direct questions. In a language that has pitch accents to cue prominence (a head prominence language according to Jun's typology), the initial syllable, if not stressed, would not typically cue prominence, but rather juncture. Using periodic energy mass as a measure of strength, and thus prominence, we found that mass enhancement is not conditioned by tonal association (either head or edge) but rather by the lexical stress. Whereas the present study shows that the word-initial H tone does not affect the relative prominence between the stressed syllable and the word-initial one, and thus does not cue prominence on the initial syllable, there is a potentially different prominence-cueing function of this early H peak. That is, for example a prominence cueing function at the word level (i.e., one which makes the entire word more prominent) driven by modality or pragmatic force.","PeriodicalId":145363,"journal":{"name":"1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)","volume":"48 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":"129626943","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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