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Segmental intonation in Zwara Berber voiceless stressed syllable peaks 兹瓦拉柏柏尔语中不发音的重读音节高峰的分段语调

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-58

C. Gussenhoven, Wei-rong Chen

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Native Beijing listeners’ perceptual assimilation of Mandarin lexical tones produced by L2-Mandarin speakers from Yantai, Shanghai, and Guangzhou 来自烟台、上海和广州的l2普通话使用者对普通话词汇声调的感知同化

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-159

Yanping Li, C. Best, M. Tyler, D. Burnham

{"title":"Native Beijing listeners’ perceptual assimilation of Mandarin lexical tones produced by L2-Mandarin speakers from Yantai, Shanghai, and Guangzhou","authors":"Yanping Li, C. Best, M. Tyler, D. Burnham","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-159","url":null,"abstract":"The four lexical tones of standard Beijing Mandarin (henceforth, Mandarin), i.e., level, rising, dipping, and falling, are produced with regional accents by speakers from other regions of China. This study investigated how native Beijing listeners categorize and rate second language (L2) Mandarin tones produced by Yantai, Shanghai, and Guangzhou speakers, whose native dialect tone systems differ from Mandarin and from each other. Native Beijing listeners ( n = 35) heard Mandarin words (/ba, di, du, gu/ × 4 tones) produced by speakers of the three regional dialects and by Beijing speakers (baseline). For each word, they selected one of four minimal-tone quadruplet words and rated its similarity to Beijing pronunciation. While they identified the words with high accuracy (> 90%) in all four accents, the regionally accented words produced lower ratings and longer decision times than Beijing stimuli. This indicates that although native Beijing listeners reliably recognize regionally accented tones, the phonetic differences of regional accents from Mandarin modulates their tone identification. This study demonstrated the impact of regional L2 accents on Beijing listeners’ perception of Mandarin tones, laying a foundation for better understanding of how native listeners perceive non-native tone production.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131329354","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 interpretation and phonetic implementation of !H* in American English 美式英语中!H*的解释和语音实现

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-152

Jill C. Thorson, R. Burdin

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The relation between musical ability and sentence-level intonation perception: A meta-analysis comparing L1 and non-native listening 音乐能力与句子级语调感知的关系:一项比较母语和非母语听力的元分析

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-145

N. Jansen, Eleanor E. Harding, H. Loerts, D. Başkent, W. Lowie

{"title":"The relation between musical ability and sentence-level intonation perception: A meta-analysis comparing L1 and non-native listening","authors":"N. Jansen, Eleanor E. Harding, H. Loerts, D. Başkent, W. Lowie","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-145","url":null,"abstract":"Studies investigating the relationship between musical abilities and speech prosody report that musicians show an altered— often enhanced—perception of prosody, or report positive correlations between music perception and prosody perception. However, some studies on L1 perception find no such benefits, but show good prosody perception across listeners. In contrast, even advanced L2 users may show difficulties in processing sentence intonation. We hypothesised that musicality might especially be beneficial in challenging circumstances of non-native intonation perception. To test this, we conducted a meta-analysis of previous research investigating the effect of musical abilities on the perception of sentence-level intonation in L1, L2, and unfamiliar languages. Studies were systematically collected, and included various measures of musicality and intonation perception. The meta-analysis combining these outcomes showed a robust positive correlation between musical ability and intonation perception. This effect did not differ between studies on L1 and unfamiliar languages. We suggest intonation perception in unfamiliar languages might be relatively easy due to the absence of semantic interference. Data on L2 users was lacking. Because semantic processing plays a role in L2 perception, we suggest further research is needed to investigate the influence of musical ability on intonation perception in L2 listening.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"291 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133513900","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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Perception of Boundary and Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese: An RPT Study 自发性日语的边界知觉与显著性知觉:一项RPT研究

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-132

Shinobu Mizuguchi, Koichi Tateishi

{"title":"Perception of Boundary and Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese: An RPT Study","authors":"Shinobu Mizuguchi, Koichi Tateishi","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-132","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional studies on prosody argue that prominence is highly tied to changes of F0 but recent perceptual research of utterance-level prosodic prominence using Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) shows that perception strategy is much more complex, as it involves not only phonetic cues but also phonological, semantic and information cues. This paper considers Japanese in the RPT framework. Since it is a mora-timed pitch language and uses pitch both for lexical accent and utterance-level prosody, it is expected that Japanese has a different perception strategy from some Indo-European languages that use pitch movement for utterance-level prosody only. It is also expected that our study will provide concrete data for the hot topic in Japanese literature, ‘Does focal prominence reset a phrase boundary?’, based on the utterance-level perception experiment. We will show that (i) contra literature on Japanese focus, acoustic features of F0 and intensity are not strong prominence cues in Japanese, (ii) perceived prominence is strongly tied to pitch movement and its location in an utterance, and (iii) not only content words but also function morphemes get highlighted in Japanese. Perception strategies vary among languages, as predicted.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131856769","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 preliminary study on the acquisition of Mandarin neutral tone by young heritage children 传承幼儿普通话中性调习得的初步研究

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-84

Chen Lan, P. Mok

{"title":"A preliminary study on the acquisition of Mandarin neutral tone by young heritage children","authors":"Chen Lan, P. Mok","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-84","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined the pitch and duration of three types of Mandarin neutral tone (T0) – the possessive particle -de, the noun suffix -zi, and reduplicated words, in four tonal environments (following T1/T2/T3/T4) produced by two heritage language (HL) children longitudinally at 3;0 and 4;0 and two children cross-sectionally at 4;0, comparing them with two adult native speakers. Unlike the monolingual children in a previous study, our results indicated that the HL children have not developed a robust neutral tone category by 4;0. Acoustic measurements showed that HL children shared similar shapes of neutral tone pitch contour across types and tonal environments with the adult speakers when they were at 4;0, with a falling pitch contour following T1, T2, T4 and a rising pitch contour following T3. However, even though both HL children and the reference speakers reduced duration while producing neutral tone compared to the preceding tone, significant differences were found for their duration variations; while the reference speakers produced neutral tone after T1, T2, and T4 with a shorter duration than T3 across types, the patterns of HL children varied according to different types of the neutral tone. Individual difference also existed among the HL children.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134059114","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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New evidence for melodic speech in Autism Spectrum Disorder 自闭症谱系障碍中旋律语言的新证据

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-8

Simon Wehrle, F. Cangemi, K. Vogeley, M. Grice

{"title":"New evidence for melodic speech in Autism Spectrum Disorder","authors":"Simon Wehrle, F. Cangemi, K. Vogeley, M. Grice","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-8","url":null,"abstract":"Since the very beginnings of research into Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), there have been contradicting descriptions of speech in ASD as being “singsongy” or melodic on the one hand and “robotic” or monotonous on the other. We highlight some issues regarding the terminology and methodologies used in previous studies as well as their comparability, concluding that previous accounts, particularly of monotonous speech in ASD, may have been misleading. We expand on a previous pilot study in using the same method of quantifying the spaciousness and liveliness of speech along two dimensions in order to analyse an extended data set (~ 5 hours) of semi-spontaneous conversations. We compare 14 German adults diagnosed with ASD and 14 matched control speakers (CTR), recorded in disposition-matched dyads (ASD-ASD; CTR-CTR). Using Bayesian modelling, we present evidence that most (but not all) ASD speakers in our corpus produced a more melodic intonation style than non-autistic CTR speakers, while, crucially, none produced a more monotonous intonation style. We emphasise the importance of inter-individual variability in groups of autistic speakers and point out that our results align with a clear tendency in recent studies to report more melodic speech in ASD.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114557457","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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Intonation in advice-giving in Kenyan English and Kiswahili 肯尼亚英语和斯瓦希里语建议中的语调

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-31

B. Otundo, M. Grice

{"title":"Intonation in advice-giving in Kenyan English and Kiswahili","authors":"B. Otundo, M. Grice","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-31","url":null,"abstract":"We examine salient prosodic features used in advice-giving in Kenyan English and Kiswahili from a radio phone-in programme. Our pilot corpus constitutes 40 sequences taken from The Breakfast Show , a Kenyan radio phone-in aired on Classic 105 fm. Although the programme is moderated in English, advice is given in both English and Kiswahili, since Kenya is highly multilingual with frequent code-switching. In this paper, we focus on the pragmatic strategies of expressing advice involving forms that furnish the recipient with little optionality in carrying out the suggested action, including, imperatives, declaratives with modal verbs, and conditional forms. In both languages, we observe a terminal falling intonation in advice-giving. However, whilst the global pitch contours in Kenyan English follow a marked downtrend for expressing advice in imperative, declarative and conditional forms, interpreted as a downstepping sequence of H* accents, those in Kiswahili have alternating rises and falls, suggesting a more elaborate intonational phonology. In instances of code-switching, imperative forms of advice generally reveal alternating rises and falls. This pattern is also found in declarative and conditional forms, although with a greater pitch range. These preliminary findings are useful in applications such as identification of language and variety, especially in multilingual interactions.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123240362","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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Rising declaratives in Veneto dialects 威尼托方言中的上升陈述句

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-36

G. Magistro, Claudia Crocco

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Prosodic Correlates of Discourse Structure and Emotion in Discourse Markers that Preface Announcements of News 新闻公告前言语标记语中语篇结构与情感的韵律关联

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-123

Emilie Marty, R. Bertrand, Caterina Petrone, J. German

{"title":"Prosodic Correlates of Discourse Structure and Emotion in Discourse Markers that Preface Announcements of News","authors":"Emilie Marty, R. Bertrand, Caterina Petrone, J. German","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-123","url":null,"abstract":"Discourse markers serve important structuring functions such as concluding a contribution or resuming a topic. We address whether, along with their role in structuring discourse, discourse markers carry prosodic cues to the emotional valence of upcoming news, perhaps to prepare the listener’s emotional reaction. Specifically, we explored the realization of French voilà donc (yeah so) when occurring between an announcement of news and its preface: Je vous appelle au sujet de votre chat qui était malade [preface], voilà donc [discourse marker] il est désormais guéri [announcement] (“I’m calling about your sick cat, yeah so he’s now cured”). We recorded 15 speakers reading voicemail messages announcing negative, positive or neutral (e.g., factual) news. We found that the intonation patterns produced with voilà donc correspond to its discursive functions, in line with existing findings, though the choice of pattern did not depend on the emotional valence of the news. Valence was, however, associated with phonetic variation, in that high f0 targets were higher for positive and neutral valence and pitch range was larger for positive valence. This finding suggests that phonetic variation projects the emotional valence of upcoming news even though discourse function primarily determines the choice of intonation pattern.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121038325","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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