The prosody of contrastive topics in Southern Swedish
(2012) FONETIK 2012 p.1-4- Abstract
- This paper presents a pilot study on the prosodic marking of a contrastive topic in Southern Swedish. A test sentence was elicited in three experimental conditions: initial focus; final focus; contrastive topic (initial word) plus focus (final word). F0 patterns were analysed in recordings of 10 speakers. A majority of the speakers distinguished clearly between the conditions, but speakers employed different strategies. The most common one involved modifying the range and/or level of the F0 patterns given by the lexical pitch accents. Another frequent strategy involved a rising pitch accent on the initial word, where the lexical pitch accent would normally stipulate a fall. This result was unexpected and indicates that Southern Swedish... (More)
- This paper presents a pilot study on the prosodic marking of a contrastive topic in Southern Swedish. A test sentence was elicited in three experimental conditions: initial focus; final focus; contrastive topic (initial word) plus focus (final word). F0 patterns were analysed in recordings of 10 speakers. A majority of the speakers distinguished clearly between the conditions, but speakers employed different strategies. The most common one involved modifying the range and/or level of the F0 patterns given by the lexical pitch accents. Another frequent strategy involved a rising pitch accent on the initial word, where the lexical pitch accent would normally stipulate a fall. This result was unexpected and indicates that Southern Swedish sentence intonation might be more complex than typically assumed. (Less)
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- author
- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert LU and Frid, Johan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- intonation, pragmatics, information structure, pitch accent
- host publication
- Proceedings FONETIK 2012 : The XXVth Swedish Phonetics Conference, May 30–June 1, 2012
- editor
- Eriksson, Anders and Abelin, Åsa
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- University of Gothenburg
- conference name
- FONETIK 2012
- conference location
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2012-05-30 - 2012-06-01
- ISBN
- 978-91-637-0985-2
- project
- Function- and production-based modeling of Swedish prosody
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
- id
- 766ebf87-5139-4b62-a1b8-34d4b8a7b90f (old id 3411941)
- alternative location
- http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/fonetik2012/artiklar/Ambrazaitis_&_Frid_fon2012.pdf
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- 2016-04-04 12:20:02
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