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The prosody of contrastive topics in Southern Swedish

Ambrazaitis, Gilbert LU and Frid, Johan LU orcid (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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intonation, pragmatics, information structure, pitch accent
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Proceedings FONETIK 2012 : The XXVth Swedish Phonetics Conference, May 30–June 1, 2012
editor
Eriksson, Anders and Abelin, Åsa
pages
4 pages
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University of Gothenburg
conference name
FONETIK 2012
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Gothenburg, Sweden
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2012-05-30 - 2012-06-01
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978-91-637-0985-2
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Function- and production-based modeling of Swedish prosody
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English
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  author       = {{Ambrazaitis, Gilbert and Frid, Johan}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings FONETIK 2012 : The XXVth Swedish Phonetics Conference, May 30–June 1, 2012}},
  editor       = {{Eriksson, Anders and Abelin, Åsa}},
  isbn         = {{978-91-637-0985-2}},
  keywords     = {{intonation; pragmatics; information structure; pitch accent}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--4}},
  publisher    = {{University of Gothenburg}},
  title        = {{The prosody of contrastive topics in Southern Swedish}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5981093/3411942.pdf}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}