How pitch change and final lengthening cue boundary perception in German: converging evidence from ERPs and prosodic judgements

Holzgrefe-Lang, Julia; Wellmann, Caroline; Petrone, Caterina; Räling, Romy; Truckenbrodt, Hubert; Höhle, Barbara; Wartenburger, Isabell

doi:10.1080/23273798.2016.1157195

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“…Finally, it would be interesting in the future to verify whether pauses alone-which proved to be perceptually relevant in our experiment -may trigger full boundary processing at the brain level. Previous studies have shown that a CPS also occurs in the absence of pauses (Steinhauer et al, 1999;Pannekamp, Toepel, Alter, Hahne, and Friederici, 2005;Holzgrefe et al, 2016), which is in line with our current results testing only single, but temporally distributed boundary cues.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…In another series of experiments, Holzgrefe, Wellmann, Petrone, Truckenbrodt, Höhle and Wartenburger (2016) found that a CPS is triggered in German by a combination of the two cues final lengthening and f0 height, though not by only final lengthening and not by only f0 height (for compatible results using the head turn preference paradigm with eightmonth-old children, see Wellmann, Hol grefe, Truckenbrodt, Wartenburger, and H hle, 2012). It is therefore concluded that pause, albeit being a very salient cue, is not necessary for IP perception.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Thus, our listeners could rely on information about each of these cues, which was more distributed over the utterance. On the other hand, Holzgrefe et al (2016) manipulated duration and f0 only at the position of the (late) IP boundary, that is, only at N2.…”

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Prosodic boundary cues in German: Evidence from the production and perception of bracketed lists

Petrone

Truckenbrodt

Wellmann

et al. 2017

Journal of Phonetics

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International audienceThis study investigates prosodic phrasing of bracketed lists in German. We analyze variation in pauses,phrase-final lengthening and f0 in speech production and how these cues affect boundary perception. In linewith the literature, it was found that pauses are often used to signal intonation phrase boundaries, while finallengthening and f0 are employed across different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. Deviations fromexpectations based on the standard syntax-prosody mapping are interpreted in terms of task-specific effects.That is, we argue that speakers add/delete prosodic boundaries to enhance the phonological contrastbetween different bracketings in the experimental task. In perception, three experiments were run, in whichwe tested only single cues (but temporally distributed at different locations of the sentences). Results fromidentification tasks and reaction time measurements indicate that pauses lead to a more abrupt shift inlisteners' prosodic judgments, while f0 and final lengthening are exploited in a more gradient manner. Hence,pauses, final lengthening and f0 have an impact on boundary perception, though listeners show differentsensitivity to the three acoustic cues

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Prosodic boundary cues in German: Evidence from the production and perception of bracketed lists

Petrone

Truckenbrodt

Wellmann

et al. 2017

Journal of Phonetics

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“…Their experimental design, however, did not allow to show the weights of these three cues. Final lengthening is another well studied cue to prosodic boundaries (e.g., [15,16,17]). In addition to longer segment durations before a phrase boundary, domain initial speech sounds may be produced with a stronger contact between articulators and with a decreased coarticulation to the previous context [18].…”

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“…Taking into account the findings of previous studies showing that boundaries in German tend to be generally marked not only by one, but multiple acoustic cues (e.g. [17]), we analysed also the distribution of the cues at boundary positions. It revealed that 81.4% and 77.3% of the prosodic boundaries (in the Austrian German and German data, respectively) are marked by more than one cue.…”

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An analysis of prosodic boundary detection in German and Austrian German read speech

Schuppler¹,

Ludusan²

2020

Speech Prosody 2020

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With speech annotation being one of the most timeconsuming and costly aspects of speech corpora development, there is a significant interest in the development of automatic annotation tools. The present study focuses on variantindependent prosodic boundary annotations for German. We test a previously proposed unsupervised approach, which posits prosodic boundaries based only on acoustic cues. The experiments were conducted on read speech from two corpora, one of Standard German, the Kiel Corpus of Spoken German, and the other of Austrian German, the Graz Corpus of Read and Spontaneous Speech. Averaging across all speakers in the dataset, the tool attained an area under the precision-recall curve of 0.308 and 0.215, for the Kiel corpus and the GRASS corpus, respectively. The significant differences obtained in detection across the two varieties were accompanied by large differences between speakers, as well. This was confirmed by a subsequent analysis of the acoustic cues employed in the process, which showed important differences in the way speakers make use of those cues for marking prosodic structure. We discuss these findings with respect to the current literature and their implication for variant-independent automatic annotation.

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A systematic review on production and comprehension of linguistic prosody in people with acquired language and communication disorders resulting from unilateral brain lesions

Beer

Wartenburger

Huttenlauch

et al. 2023

Journal of Communication Disorders

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How pitch change and final lengthening cue boundary perception in German: converging evidence from ERPs and prosodic judgements

Cited by 24 publications

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Prosodic boundary cues in German: Evidence from the production and perception of bracketed lists

Prosodic boundary cues in German: Evidence from the production and perception of bracketed lists

An analysis of prosodic boundary detection in German and Austrian German read speech

A systematic review on production and comprehension of linguistic prosody in people with acquired language and communication disorders resulting from unilateral brain lesions

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