Dip and hat pattern: a phonological contrast of German?
(2008) 4th Conference on Speech Prosody- Abstract
- Is the high plateau in a ‘hat pattern’ a phonetic artefact, or does it reflect a phonological feature? Can it contrast with a low plateau, i.e., a ‘dip pattern’? The presented perception experiment supports the phonological point of view, since it shows that the dip/hat contrast can disambiguate German oder-constructions, which are interpretable as ‘alternative’ or ‘yes/no-questions’. This specific function may be derived from a more general substance–function relation: While a hat pattern has a ‘bracketing function’, a dip signals detachment.
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- author
- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert LU and Niebuhr, Oliver
- organization
- publishing date
- 2008
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- bracketing function, perception, alternative question, phonetics, phonology, AM, KIM, intonation model, hat pattern, concatenation
- pages
- 4 pages
- conference name
- 4th Conference on Speech Prosody
- conference location
- Campinas, Brazil
- conference dates
- 2008-05-07
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84902665853
- 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
- 4584c0d9-494d-450c-be3e-bc401353e0c0 (old id 1024917)
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- 2016-04-04 13:46:03
- date last changed
- 2023-09-06 18:15:59
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abstract = {{Is the high plateau in a ‘hat pattern’ a phonetic artefact, or does it reflect a phonological feature? Can it contrast with a low plateau, i.e., a ‘dip pattern’? The presented perception experiment supports the phonological point of view, since it shows that the dip/hat contrast can disambiguate German oder-constructions, which are interpretable as ‘alternative’ or ‘yes/no-questions’. This specific function may be derived from a more general substance–function relation: While a hat pattern has a ‘bracketing function’, a dip signals detachment.}},
author = {{Ambrazaitis, Gilbert and Niebuhr, Oliver}},
keywords = {{bracketing function; perception; alternative question; phonetics; phonology; AM; KIM; intonation model; hat pattern; concatenation}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Dip and hat pattern: a phonological contrast of German?}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/6200165/1024927.pdf}},
year = {{2008}},
}