Luciana Castro, Ben Serridge, João Antônio de Moraes, M. Freitas
{"title":"The prosody of the TV news speaking style in Brazilian Portuguese","authors":"Luciana Castro, Ben Serridge, João Antônio de Moraes, M. Freitas","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0005/000125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0005/000125","url":null,"abstract":"This study characterizes the prosodic structure of the TV news speaking style in Brazil and compares it to the speech of interview subjects on a television talk show. Fifteen distinct metrics, designed to characterize both temporal and melodic characteristics of speech, were evaluated on the two speaking styles. The results of the analysis show that the TV news speaking style is characterized by a lack of filled pauses, a fast speaking rate, few and short silent pauses, and a high percentage of dynamic tones. However, the only metric for which the difference in speaking styles was shown to be statistically significant was the intra-vocalic mean melodic movement.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132586803","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}
{"title":"Focus prominence and tonal alignment in Athenian and Cypriot Greek","authors":"C. Themistocleous, Stelios K. Kyriacou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0046/000166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0046/000166","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the effects of focus prominence production on tonal alignment in Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek. Information focus has been elicited by using a Wh-Question in utterances with varying number of syllable constituents —from twelve syllables to eighteen— following the constituent under focus prominence. The results indicate significant effects of speech variety on the alignment of tonal targets; utterance length on the other hand showed poor effects on tonal alignment.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123487271","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}
{"title":"There is more to chat discourse than written conversation","authors":"Cláudia Silva","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0042/000162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0042/000162","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we aim at comparing some deviations from standard writing present in Portuguese and English informal chats in order to reflect on the linguistic knowledge that lies beneath these innovative spellings: phonetic, phonological or orthographic.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129166077","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}
Ellen Thompson, Javier F. Collado, Maria Omaña, Amanda Yousuf-Little
{"title":"The processing of asymmetric and symmetric sentential conjunction","authors":"Ellen Thompson, Javier F. Collado, Maria Omaña, Amanda Yousuf-Little","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0032/000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0032/000201","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we examine the predictions for processing of a syntactically articulated theory of the distinction among different interpretations of clausal 'and'. Bjorkman (2010) claims that symmetric 'and' interpretations involve coordination of CPs; these are logical interpretations. Asymmetric interpretations of 'and' involve conjunction of TPs; these are temporal and causal. If the processor is guided by structural considerations, we predict a possible two-way split in the processing costs of these structures. Therefore, this research examines the processing time involved in sentences interpreted as: (i) temporal, (ii) causal, and (iii) logical, versus the distinctions of (i) asymmetric (TP structure), and (ii) symmetric (CP structure). We find that structures involving symmetric 'and' involve longer processing times than those of asymmetric, causal 'and', and although the processing times of structures with logical 'and' are longer than those with temporal 'and', this distinction does not approach statistical significance.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117324747","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}
Evelina Leivada, Paraskevi Mavroudi, Anna Epistithiou
{"title":"Metalanguage or bidialectism? acquisition of clitic placement by Hellenic Greeks, Greek Cypriots and binationals in the diglossic context of Cyprus","authors":"Evelina Leivada, Paraskevi Mavroudi, Anna Epistithiou","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0025/000145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0025/000145","url":null,"abstract":"Acquisition of object clitics is one of the more investigated aspects of the largely understudied variety of Modern Greek spoken in the Republic of Cyprus. Previous studies on the acquisition of clitics in Cypriot Greek usually acknowledge that the linguistic reality in Cyprus involves a state of diglossia, where the sociolinguistically ‘high’ Standard Modern Greek co-exists with the ‘low’ Cypriot Greek. Acquisition of clitic placement in simple declaratives is here approached through a picture-based elicitation task by testing both varieties in three populations residing in Cyprus — Greek Cypriots, Hellenic Greeks, and binationals — so as to examine implications for bidialectism and its connections with enhanced metalinguistic abilities.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123860712","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}
{"title":"Metacommunicative devices in spoken discourse as part of processing distributed cognitive tasks","authors":"Ilya Utekhin, T. Chernigovskaya","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0036/000205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0036/000205","url":null,"abstract":"Types of utterances that belong to meta-levels of activity have been singled out in spoken task-focused dialogues between subjects accomplishing a matching task with no visual contact. The types include activity management and planning, global and local (e.g. signals of activity phase); explicit evaluation of the state of joint project, communicative utterances for conversation management; backchannel response: ation; repair (self-repair, otherrepair); meta-linguistic utterances; meta-communicative utterances having to do with rapport, etiquette, joking, etc. Differences between normal and schizophrenic subjects have been shown in meta-communicative activity supposed to be linked to the management of distributed cognition and creation of shared representations of reality.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123968606","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}
{"title":"Boundary-related durations in modern Greek","authors":"Evia Kainada","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0018/000138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0018/000138","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the influence of prosodic boundary strength on the temporal organisation of speech. It tests whether Modern Greek (MG) exhibits pre- and postboundary lengthening, and whether the lengthening effect decays gradually the further away from the boundary, or is attracted to stressed syllables, even if those are not in the proximity of the boundary. It is shown that MG exhibits pre-boundary lengthening, which is at its strongest on the pre-boundary syllable, followed in strength by the stressed syllable, and is least pronounced on the intervening unstressed syllables. No clear post-boundary lengthening effects were identified.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124045036","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}
{"title":"Functions and mechanisms in linguistic research - lessons from speech prosody","authors":"Yi Xu","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0001/000170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0001/000170","url":null,"abstract":"Human speech, as a collection of complex phenomena, can be explored from many different angles, and interesting data can be generated with various approaches. However, if we aim to substantially improve our understanding of speech, it is advantageous to focus on the communicative functions and the mechanisms that enable these functions. This paper uses prosodic phenomena in speech as examples to illustrate the necessity as well as potential benefits of such function- and mechanism-oriented approaches.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122832357","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}
{"title":"Production of Greek and Turkish vowels by bilingual speakers","authors":"Elina Nirgianaki, Ougour Chasan, Evgenia Magoula","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0027/000196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0027/000196","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines the acoustic vowel space of Greek and Turkish vowels produced by bilingual speakers. The results are presented for both languages’ vowels production by bilingual speakers, as well as compared with the vowels production by monolingual speakers. It is revealed that the acoustic space of the Greek vowels produced by bilingual speakers is larger than the acoustic space of their Turkish vowels, mainly due to the lower and more front position of the point vowels [a] and [i], respectively. Moreover, the acoustic space of the Greek vowels produced by bilingual speakers is smaller than the one of the Greek vowels produced by monolingual speakers. On the contrary, the acoustic space of the Turkish vowels produced by bilingual speakers is larger than the one of the Turkish vowels produced by monolinguals.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127674520","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}
{"title":"Subject gaps in German coordinative structures - empirical evidence for a gradient phenomenon","authors":"Petra-Kristin Bonitz, Anke Holler","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0008/000177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0008/000177","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we investigate German complex clauses containing a subject gap using the empirical method of Magnitude Estimation. We will present evidence for the fact that subject gaps in coordinative structures can be characterized by (i) gradience and (ii) regional distinctiveness. Against the background of the recent critical discussion of Magnitude Estimation (e.g. Featherston 2008), we show that this method qualifies to test hierarchical graduation of acceptability.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134221701","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}