Processing Danish nouns with stød-alternating stems
Zerakitsky Vies, Christophe and Gosselke Berthelsen, Sabine LU
(2023)
p.54-60
- Abstract
- Stød is a syllable rhyme prosody that is realized as creaky voice, and its distributionis partly predictable. To examine listeners’ implicit knowledge of the complicatednature of stød distribution, we conducted a lexical decision task, investigating anirregularly behaving group of nouns in which stød distribution is unpredictable.We hypothesized that listeners would be the most surprised by deviating prosodyin lexemes where all word forms occur with stød, and that they would more oftencharacterize these nouns as non-words in cases of deviating stød. Conversely, weassumed that there would be less strong expectations for words with frequent andgrammatically predictable changes in prosody. We found that, on the whole,words pronounced with... (More)
- Stød is a syllable rhyme prosody that is realized as creaky voice, and its distributionis partly predictable. To examine listeners’ implicit knowledge of the complicatednature of stød distribution, we conducted a lexical decision task, investigating anirregularly behaving group of nouns in which stød distribution is unpredictable.We hypothesized that listeners would be the most surprised by deviating prosodyin lexemes where all word forms occur with stød, and that they would more oftencharacterize these nouns as non-words in cases of deviating stød. Conversely, weassumed that there would be less strong expectations for words with frequent andgrammatically predictable changes in prosody. We found that, on the whole,words pronounced with deviating prosody were reacted to more slowly and weremore often judged to be non-words, indicating that listeners rely on stød whenaccessing the mental representations. Nouns with canonical stød in the pluralevoked more non-word responses in the deviating prosody condition comparedto words with canonical non-stød. This effect is strongest for the -ene suffix butalso visible for -er-ne. This tendency seems to reflect a bias towards of stødconnected to a difference in suffix productivity (Less)
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- Zerakitsky Vies, Christophe
and Gosselke Berthelsen, Sabine
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
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- subject
- keywords
- psycholinguistics, morphophonology, prosody, Danish, stød, lexical choice
- host publication
- Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Prosody Conference : Applied and Multimodal Prosody Research - Applied and Multimodal Prosody Research
- editor
- Niebuhr, Oliver and Svensson Lundmark, Malin
- pages
- 7 pages
- publisher
- Sciendo
- DOI
- 10.2478/9788366675728-003
- project
- Second language learner processing of prosodic cues: Danish stød in the brain
- language
- English
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abstract = {{Stød is a syllable rhyme prosody that is realized as creaky voice, and its distributionis partly predictable. To examine listeners’ implicit knowledge of the complicatednature of stød distribution, we conducted a lexical decision task, investigating anirregularly behaving group of nouns in which stød distribution is unpredictable.We hypothesized that listeners would be the most surprised by deviating prosodyin lexemes where all word forms occur with stød, and that they would more oftencharacterize these nouns as non-words in cases of deviating stød. Conversely, weassumed that there would be less strong expectations for words with frequent andgrammatically predictable changes in prosody. We found that, on the whole,words pronounced with deviating prosody were reacted to more slowly and weremore often judged to be non-words, indicating that listeners rely on stød whenaccessing the mental representations. Nouns with canonical stød in the pluralevoked more non-word responses in the deviating prosody condition comparedto words with canonical non-stød. This effect is strongest for the -ene suffix butalso visible for -er-ne. This tendency seems to reflect a bias towards of stødconnected to a difference in suffix productivity}},
author = {{Zerakitsky Vies, Christophe and Gosselke Berthelsen, Sabine}},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Prosody Conference : Applied and Multimodal Prosody Research}},
editor = {{Niebuhr, Oliver and Svensson Lundmark, Malin}},
keywords = {{psycholinguistics; morphophonology; prosody; Danish; stød; lexical choice}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{54--60}},
publisher = {{Sciendo}},
title = {{Processing Danish nouns with stød-alternating stems}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/9788366675728-003}},
doi = {{10.2478/9788366675728-003}},
year = {{2023}},
}