Prosodic signalling of (un)expected information in South Swedish : an interactive manipulation experiment
(2006) Speech Prosody 2006 In Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation 40. p.911-914- Abstract
- Starting from the German pitch peak timing categories and their communicative functions, it is asked how these functions would be expressed in South Swedish. The aim is to get a first impression as regards potentially relevant prosodic parameters associated with the expression of expected vs. unexpected information in South Swedish. For that, an interactive manipulation experiment is conducted, where subjects manipulate the pitch contour and duration of monosyllabic test utterances until the sound output adequately represents a given communicative function. Swedish has a tonal word accent distinction, and all test words have accent 1, normally produced with an early pitch fall. It is thus hypothesized that in South Swedish, expected vs.... (More)
- Starting from the German pitch peak timing categories and their communicative functions, it is asked how these functions would be expressed in South Swedish. The aim is to get a first impression as regards potentially relevant prosodic parameters associated with the expression of expected vs. unexpected information in South Swedish. For that, an interactive manipulation experiment is conducted, where subjects manipulate the pitch contour and duration of monosyllabic test utterances until the sound output adequately represents a given communicative function. Swedish has a tonal word accent distinction, and all test words have accent 1, normally produced with an early pitch fall. It is thus hypothesized that in South Swedish, expected vs. unexpected information will not be expressed through a different pitch peak timing, as in German. The results indeed clearly hint at unexpected information being signalled by means of a higher, rather than a later pitch peak. (Less)
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- author
- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2006
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- word accent, unexpected, expected, pitch, timing, swedish, prosody, attitude
- host publication
- Speech Prosody : 3rd International Conference, Dresden, May 2-5, 2006. Abstract Book and CD-ROM Proceedings - 3rd International Conference, Dresden, May 2-5, 2006. Abstract Book and CD-ROM Proceedings
- series title
- Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation
- editor
- Hoffmann, Rüdiger and Mixdorff, Hansjörg
- volume
- 40
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- TUDPress
- conference name
- Speech Prosody 2006
- conference location
- Dresden, Germany
- conference dates
- 2006-05-02 - 2006-05-05
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- scopus:85015758187
- ISSN
- 0940-6832
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 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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title = {{Prosodic signalling of (un)expected information in South Swedish : an interactive manipulation experiment}},
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