Recognizing phrase and utterance as prosodic units in non-tonal dialects of Kammu
(2008) FONETIK 2008 p.89-92- Abstract
- This paper presents a study of prosodic phras-ing in a non-tonal dialect of Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos. Prosodic phrasing is seen as correlated with syntactic and informational structures, and the description is made referring to these two lev-els. The material investigated comprises sen-tences of different lengths and syntactic struc-tures, uttered by seven male speakers. It is found that, based on prosodic cues, the distinc-tion between prosodic utterance and prosodic phrase can be made. Prosodic phrase is sig-naled by a sequence of low + high pitch while the right edge of the prosodic utterance gets low pitch. This low terminal is replaced by a high terminal in expressive speech. The study is performed using... (More)
- This paper presents a study of prosodic phras-ing in a non-tonal dialect of Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos. Prosodic phrasing is seen as correlated with syntactic and informational structures, and the description is made referring to these two lev-els. The material investigated comprises sen-tences of different lengths and syntactic struc-tures, uttered by seven male speakers. It is found that, based on prosodic cues, the distinc-tion between prosodic utterance and prosodic phrase can be made. Prosodic phrase is sig-naled by a sequence of low + high pitch while the right edge of the prosodic utterance gets low pitch. This low terminal is replaced by a high terminal in expressive speech. The study is performed using elicited speech. (Less)
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- Karlsson, Anastasia LU ; House, David LU and Tayanin, Damrong LU
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- publishing date
- 2008
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Kammu, Prosody, phrasing
- host publication
- Proceedings of Fonetik 2008
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University
- conference name
- FONETIK 2008
- conference location
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2008-06-11 - 2008-06-13
- 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)
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@inproceedings{6ee0a749-5f3a-41bb-bc35-e2b01c34a6d6, abstract = {{This paper presents a study of prosodic phras-ing in a non-tonal dialect of Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos. Prosodic phrasing is seen as correlated with syntactic and informational structures, and the description is made referring to these two lev-els. The material investigated comprises sen-tences of different lengths and syntactic struc-tures, uttered by seven male speakers. It is found that, based on prosodic cues, the distinc-tion between prosodic utterance and prosodic phrase can be made. Prosodic phrase is sig-naled by a sequence of low + high pitch while the right edge of the prosodic utterance gets low pitch. This low terminal is replaced by a high terminal in expressive speech. The study is performed using elicited speech.}}, author = {{Karlsson, Anastasia and House, David and Tayanin, Damrong}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of Fonetik 2008}}, keywords = {{Kammu; Prosody; phrasing}}, language = {{eng}}, pages = {{89--92}}, publisher = {{Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University}}, title = {{Recognizing phrase and utterance as prosodic units in non-tonal dialects of Kammu}}, url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5501445/1155846.pdf}}, year = {{2008}}, }