Articulatory and acoustic correlates of prominence in French: Comparing L1 and L2 speakers

Smith, Caroline L.; Erickson, Donna; Savariaux, Christophe

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100938

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“…Erickson and colleagues [68][69][70] demonstrated that the jaw displacement well explained the metrical structure and subjective prominence ratings in a number of languages (English, [68][69][70] French, 71 Mandarin 72 and Japanese 70,73 ), where a more prominent syllable was typically associated with a lower jaw position. These studies revealed that English exhibited more irregular jaw cycles compared with the other languages.…”

Section: Speech Rhythm: Integrating Mouth Movementsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Characterizing first and second language rhythm in English using spectral coherence between temporal envelope and mouth opening-closing movements

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2021

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This study investigated the rhythmic differences between first and second language English from 19 native speakers of American English and an equal number of native speakers of Mandarin. Speech rhythm was viewed from Peter MacNeilage’s frame/content theory. The spectral coherence between the temporal envelope and the mouth opening and closing kinematics was computed to operationalize the rhythmic frame. The spectral centroid, spread, rolloff, flatness and entropy were calculated to reveal the frequency distribution patterns in the coherence. Using a binary logistic regression model, these measures were collectively found to be effective in characterizing rhythmic differences between native and non-native groups (A′ = 0.71 and B″D = –0.06). Specifically, the native group was significantly lower than the non-native group in terms of spectral centroid and spread; whereas, the native group was significantly higher than its non-native counterpart in terms of spectral flatness and entropy. Both groups were not significantly different in spectral rolloff. Possible explanations for the result as well as the efficacy of employing the aforesaid coherence in speech rhythm research in general were discussed.

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Section: Speech Rhythm: Integrating Mouth Movementsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Characterizing first and second language rhythm in English using spectral coherence between temporal envelope and mouth opening-closing movements

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2021

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“…Variation of duration, in pre-pausal or pre-boundary lengthening of syllables and/or segments has been doubly associated with a demarcating function of prosodic constituency and a highlighting function of prominence marking in French, an edge-marking language (Jun & Fougeron 2002;Tabain 2003;Michelas & D'Imperio 2012;Smith, Erickson & Savariaux 2019). Crosslinguistic observations have found that not only the syllable, but also a word in Intonation Phrase final position is lengthened (Seifart et al 2021).…”

Section: Prosodic Markingmentioning

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Prominence marking in an edge-prominent language - the case of Drehu

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Fletcher

2022

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This study investigates prominence marking and phrasing of prosodic constituents in Drehu, an Oceanic language from New Caledonia. This analysis is concerned with the marking of prominence in informational focus. First impressionistic descriptions of Drehu state there is fixed word initial stress, however recent experimental evidence does not support this claim. To determine whether the patterns recorded in the literature are borne out, the prosodic and phonetic realisation of post-lexical word prominence is investigated. An experiment was conducted to examine the extent to which fundamental frequency and duration contribute to the signalling of prominence in Drehu. Further, the goal is to provide a description of tonal patterns that allows for a cross-linguistic comparison, from a prosodic typological perspective. The results show that prominence is marked with longer duration and a H* tone, realised on the word final syllable. A phrase initial low tone and the phrase final high tone demarcate the prosodic word.

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“…This proposal is of interest in the context of differences in the pitch patterns on disyllabic words among Lizu varieties, because it may provide a possible explanation for these differences. Namely, recognition of stress in addition to tone opens up the possibility that the complex correspondences among Lizu varieties are due to differences in the structure and realization of prominence relations, as common among dialects of the same language and among related languages (see Smith, Erickson, and Savariaux 2019; Rathcke 2020 for recent accounts). However, such an explanation cannot be directly applied, for the prosodic organization of different Lizu varieties remains little studied, and even in relation to Kala Lizu, for which a hybrid prosodic system has been proposed, the proposal is based on auditory impressions and has not been experimentally tested.…”

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confidence: 99%