On The Perception Of Prosodic Prominences And Boundaries In Papuan Malay

Riesberg, Sonja; Kalbertodt, Janina; Baumann, Stefan; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.

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“…As for Papuan Malay (ISO: pmy; spoken in the provinces Papua and West Papua, Indonesia), prosody has received some attention in recent research, although the available work still largely reflects an early stage of research. Where perceived prosodic prominence was initially reported to be of little relevance in Papuan Malay (Riesberg et al 2018), later studies showed acoustic and perceptual support for regular penultimate word stress (Kluge 2017;Kaland 2019Kaland , 2020Kaland, Himmelmann & Kluge 2019;Kaland & Van Heuven 2020). The most salient prosodic events occur phrase-finally (Riesberg et al 2018, Kaland & Baumann 2020, with some interaction between phrase f0 and word stress.…”

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“…Where perceived prosodic prominence was initially reported to be of little relevance in Papuan Malay (Riesberg et al 2018), later studies showed acoustic and perceptual support for regular penultimate word stress (Kluge 2017;Kaland 2019Kaland , 2020Kaland, Himmelmann & Kluge 2019;Kaland & Van Heuven 2020). The most salient prosodic events occur phrase-finally (Riesberg et al 2018, Kaland & Baumann 2020, with some interaction between phrase f0 and word stress. In particular, f0 rises show a weak tendency to align with stressed syllables in phrase final position.…”

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Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours

Kaland¹

2021

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This paper reports an automatic data-driven analysis for describing prototypical intonation patterns, particularly suitable for initial stages of prosodic research and language description. The approach has several advantages over traditional ways to investigate intonation, such as the applicability to spontaneous speech, language- and domain-independency, and the potential of revealing meaningful functions of intonation. These features make the approach particularly useful for language documentation, where the description of prosody is often lacking. The core of this approach is a cluster analysis on a time-series of f0 measurements and consists of two scripts (Praat and R, available from https://constantijnkaland.github.io/contourclustering/). Graphical user interfaces can be used to perform the analyses on collected data ranging from spontaneous to highly controlled speech. There is limited need for manual annotation prior to analysis and speaker variability can be accounted for. After cluster analysis, Praat textgrids can be generated with the cluster number annotated for each individual contour. Although further confirmatory analysis is still required, the outcomes provide useful and unbiased directions for any investigation of prototypical f0 contours based on their acoustic form.

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Section: Conceptual Proof On Noun Phrase Contoursmentioning

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Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours

Kaland¹

2021

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…Note that word stress in this overview is separated from phrase prosodic events such as pitch accents and boundary tones. Some studies have made claims on word stress based on phrase prosodic data only (Odé, 1994 for Standard Indonesian;Riesberg, Kalbertodt, Baumann, & Himmelmann, 2018;2020 for Papuan Malay) and are therefore excluded from this overview. The importance of separating word-level from phrase-level prosody in Malayo-Polynesian languages of South East Asia has been pointed out in recent work (e.g., Kaufman & Himmelmann,in press,p.…”

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The perception of word stress cues in Papuan Malay: A typological perspective and experimental investigation

Kaland

2021

Laboratory Phonology

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Analyses of word prosody have shown that in some Indonesian languages listeners do not make use of word stress cues. The outcomes have contributed to the conclusion that these languages do not have word stress. The current study revisits this conclusion and investigates to what extent speakers of Papuan Malay, a language of Eastern Indonesia, use suprasegmental stress cues to recognize words. Acoustically, this language exhibits predictable word level prominence patterns, which could facilitate word recognition. However, the literature lacks a crucial perceptual verification and related languages in the Trade Malay family have been analysed as stressless. This could be indicative of either regional variation or different criteria to diagnose word stress. To investigate this issue, the current study reviews the literature on which criteria were decisive to diagnose (the absence of) word stress in Indonesian and Trade Malay. An acoustic analysis and a gating task investigate the usefulness of Papuan Malay stress cues for word recognition. Results show that Papuan Malay listeners are indeed able to use suprasegmental stress cues to identify words. The outcomes are discussed in a typological perspective to shed light on how production and perception studies contribute to stress diagnosis cross-linguistically.

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Spectral tilt as a correlate of Papuan Malay word stress

Kaland¹

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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Papuan Malay, like related languages, is claimed to have regular word stress. However, acoustic evidence to support this claim is lacking. In addition, the existence of word stress in Malayo-Polynesian languages has been topic of discussion in recent work. In particular, studies have struggled to keep apart prosodic phenomena on the word level from those at the phrase level. Therefore, it remains to be investigated to what extent impressionistic claims on word stress find empirical support. This issue is investigated in the current study by means of an acoustic analysis of spectral tilt. Spectral tilt has been shown to be a consistent correlate of word stress crosslinguistically. The spectral tilt measures are taken from spontaneous Papuan Malay speech and provide preliminary evidence for word stress.

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On The Perception Of Prosodic Prominences And Boundaries In Papuan Malay

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Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours

Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours

The perception of word stress cues in Papuan Malay: A typological perspective and experimental investigation

Spectral tilt as a correlate of Papuan Malay word stress

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