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Combining syntax and prosody to signal information structure: the case of French 结合句法与韵律表达信息结构:以法语为例

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-18

Cristel Portes, Uwe Reyle

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Disentangling emphasis from pragmatic contrastivity in the English H* ~ L+H* contrast 英语H* ~ L+H*对比中强调与语用对比的分离

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-170

A. Arvaniti, Stella Gryllia, Cong Zhang, K. Marcoux

{"title":"Disentangling emphasis from pragmatic contrastivity in the English H* ~ L+H* contrast","authors":"A. Arvaniti, Stella Gryllia, Cong Zhang, K. Marcoux","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-170","url":null,"abstract":"English H* and L+H* indicate new and contrastive information respectively, though some argue the difference between them is solely one of phonetic emphasis. We used (modified) Rapid Prosody Transcription to test these views. Forty-seven speakers of Standard Southern British English (SSBE) listened to 86 SSBE utterances and marked the words they considered prominent or emphatic. Accents (N = 281) were independently coded as H* or L+H* using phonetic criteria, and as contrastive or non-contrastive using pragmatic criteria. If L+H* is an emphatic H*, all L+H*s should be more prominent than H*s. If the accents mark pragmatic information, contrastivity should drive responses. Contrastive accents and L+H*s were considered more prominent than non-contrastive accents and H*s respectively. Individual responses showed different strategies: for some participants, all L+H*s were more prominent than H*s, for others, contrastive accents were more prominent than non-contrastive accents, and for still others, there was no difference between categories. These results indicate that a reason for the continuing debate about English H* and L+H* may be that the two accents form a weak contrast which some speakers acquire and attend to while others do not.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"15 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":"131781686","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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Timing in speech and music of contemporary English and Scottish composers 当代英国和苏格兰作曲家演讲和音乐的时间

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-109

Nicola West, Tamara Rathcke, Rachel Smith

{"title":"Timing in speech and music of contemporary English and Scottish composers","authors":"Nicola West, Tamara Rathcke, Rachel Smith","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-109","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines the links connecting speech and music, and seeks to provide innovative evidence for the long-debated question whether or not speech prosody of a language leaves a notable imprint in its music. Previous studies have frequently focused on the distinction between music from composers who speak a language classed either as ‘stress-timed’ (like English, German) or as ‘syllable-timed’ (like French, Italian), with rather mixed results. Given that the typological distinction between the two rhythm templates is considered controversial, it may be not surprising that to date, empirical support for the idea that the native language of a composer influences their music is limited. The present study aimed to test this hypothesis by eliminating some methodological issues known from previous research. It collected spoken and musical data from contemporary classical composers, native speakers either of Standard Southern British English or of Standard Scottish English. The two varieties of English were chosen for their distinct timing patterns. The results provide support for the idea that music of a composer shares some temporal patterning with their spoken language and are discussed with reference to cognitive processes of implicit statistical learning.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"36 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":"122290542","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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Believe It or Not: Acoustic-Prosodic Cues to Trusting and Untrusting Speech in Interview Dialogues 信不信由你:访谈对话中信任与不信任言语的声学韵律线索

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-124

Sarah Ita Levitan, J. Hirschberg

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Intonational interference in English-L2 Brazilian speakers: production and perception 英语- l2巴西人的语调干扰:产生和感知

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-168

Thales Buzan, Cristina Name, J. Sosa

{"title":"Intonational interference in English-L2 Brazilian speakers: production and perception","authors":"Thales Buzan, Cristina Name, J. Sosa","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-168","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the phenomenon of intonational contour interference, in both production and perception, in the Brazilian Portuguese/English (BP/EN) language pair. Brazilian learners and English natives were tested. We analysed polar questions as their final contour patterns differ – rise-fall in BP and rise in US English. A production task was conducted which revealed the typical BP yes/no question contours, approximately 33% when Brazilians uttered English questions. Regarding perception, a forced decision task was conducted in which EN native participants had to choose whether they heard a question or a statement. This task was to investigate (a) the perception of EN-L1 listeners to EN questions with BP intonational interference, and (b) the perception of BP-L1 listeners to (i) the same questions with interference, and (ii) the interrogatives produced by English-L1 speakers. Results show that EN-L1 listeners tend to perceive questions with the BP contour as statements. Conversely, Brazilians do not have significant problems recognizing their own question contour, or the US English characteristic rising contour as proper questions. In perceptual terms, BP-L1 listeners do recognize the English typical interrogative contour. When there is BP interference, they also display a high rate of question recognition, although with a delayed reaction time.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"140 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":"115094719","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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Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach 德语wh-疑问句和wh-感叹词的边界音——基于聚类的方法

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-6

H. Seeliger, Constantijn Kaland

{"title":"Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach","authors":"H. Seeliger, Constantijn Kaland","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-6","url":null,"abstract":"We present data from a production study investigating verb-final German wh -questions and wh -exclamatives. We focus here on the variety of boundary tones found in the data. While most exclamatives were produced with falling contours and most questions with rising ones, there was substantial overlap between the two speech acts. Many utterance-final pitch offsets and pitch movements were also ambiguous in height and direction, pro-viding a challenge for manual annotation. We apply a contour-based cluster analysis to the data in order to semi-automatically group intonation contours. We show that a cluster analysis based on the entire contour can shed light on the variety of boundary tones, although some clusters are ‘mixed’ and contain both high and low boundary tones. We then supplement this analysis with another cluster analysis based on the final two syllables of the utterance, which succeeds in splitting the mixed clusters. Finally, we use the combined cluster analysis to identify and describe the ambiguous boundary tones and argue that their form-to-function mapping falls outside the scope of the canonical inventory of GToBI boundary tones. Specifically, we found late falls after high plateaus and level, medium-high plateaus that are distinct both from continuation rises and calling contours.","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":"129884011","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 Intonation Model of Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla 托雷斯-马丁内斯沙漠卡韦拉语的初步语调模型

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-52

Ray Huaute

{"title":"A Preliminary Intonation Model of Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla","authors":"Ray Huaute","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-52","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analysis of the intonational patterns and phrasal domains in simple declaratives in Torres-Martinez Desert (TMD) Cahuilla, a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Southern California. While the word-prosodic system of Cahuilla has been addressed in previous literature [1], [2], [3], no intonational analysis has been proposed for any Cahuilla variety. Using novel data, I motivate a preliminary intonational model for declarative sentences in TMD Cahuilla within the AM (autosegmental-metrical) framework. Specifically, I analyze TMD Cahuilla as having two distinct levels of prosodic constituency: the Intonational Phrase (IP), which is composed of at least one Accentual Phrase (AP), and the AP, which consists of at least one prosodic word, has an obligatory H* pitch accent on the lexically stressed syllable and an La edge tone aligned to the right edge of the phrase. The IP ends in a L% boundary tone, which overwrites the La when they co-occur. Phrase-final lengthening and optional pauses delineate the IP. Given the paucity of intonational research on American Indian languages, this paper contributes to a growing body of cross-linguistic research that tests the ability of an AM-based system of annotation such as ToBI, to model a wide range of intonation systems.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"33 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":"132220291","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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Prosodic focus marking in Canadian English 加拿大英语的韵律焦点标记

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-20

Jiseung Kim, Anja Arnhold

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Information status and tonal context jointly modulate prosodic prominence relations in German 信息地位和语调语境共同调节着德语的韵律突出关系

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-2

Janne Lorenzen, S. Roessig, S. Baumann

{"title":"Information status and tonal context jointly modulate prosodic prominence relations in German","authors":"Janne Lorenzen, S. Roessig, S. Baumann","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-2","url":null,"abstract":"We conducted an interactive online production experiment on German in which participants were asked to read aloud stories for a fellow player who then had to sort picture cards corresponding to single sentences of the stories in the correct order. The target sentences contained two target words, an indirect object followed by a direct object, which were either new or accessible in their discourse context. Our aim was to investigate the paradigmatic and syntagmatic effects of information status as well as the (syntagmatic) influence of tonal context on the prosodic prominence relation between the target words. Results show that (i) new referents are generally marked by more prominent accent types than accessible referents, (ii) the prominence of sentence-final accents increases/decreases when their referents are newer / more accessible than non-final referents (carrying ‘medial’ accents), and (iii) the type of medial accent determines the relation between accent type and information status in the final pitch accent. The results support the idea of a prominence budget that is distributed across pitch accents within an utterance. Furthermore, modulations of a specific distribution of prominences may reflect changes in both meaning-related factors (such as information status) and form-related factors (such as accent type) simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"44 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":"128463943","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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How do we chunk and pause in non-native vs native speech? Methodological implications for SLA 我们如何在非母语和母语语言中进行分组和暂停?SLA的方法含义

Speech Prosody 2022 Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2022-161

Lucie Judkins, Charlotte Alazard-Guiu, Corine Astésano

{"title":"How do we chunk and pause in non-native vs native speech? Methodological implications for SLA","authors":"Lucie Judkins, Charlotte Alazard-Guiu, Corine Astésano","doi":"10.21437/speechprosody.2022-161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2022-161","url":null,"abstract":"The present preliminary study looks at speech units and pauses’ quantity, duration and distribution in native (L1) vs non-native (L2) spontaneous speech. 6 English L1 – French L2 speakers (2 females) were recorded in their L1 and L2 on a conversation task. 3 speakers had an elementary L2 proficiency level, the other 3 were advanced. We looked at 1) the effect of speaking an L2 vs an L1 (within-speaker analysis) and 2) the effect of the proficiency level (between-speaker analysis) on the quantity, distribution and duration of silent and voiced pauses and the quantity and duration of Inter Pausal Units (IPU). Our results show that the IPU tend to be more numerous and shorter in L2 but those differences do not reach significance. Pauses are more numerous in L2 regardless of the proficiency level and the difference between L1 and L2 is less important in the advanced group. These tendencies concern mainly the quantity and less so the duration and distribution. Additionally, we notice a greater diversity in the type of pauses in L2. These observations shed light on the reality of interlanguage and the methodological issues involved in its description. Implications for L2 speech analysis and evaluation are discussed.","PeriodicalId":442842,"journal":{"name":"Speech Prosody 2022","volume":"30 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":"133625692","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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