On the Phonetics of Intensifying Emphasis in German

Niebuhr, Oliver

doi:10.1159/000321054

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“…Instances in which the mispronounced word is completed before the onset of repair, as in sat soap … fat soap, tend to have a repair component with a low pitch and intensity prominence on the first vowel compared with the reparandum. Nooteboom does not consider the tempo of the repairs, but if we associate high pitch and intensity with relative emphasis, or hyper-articulation (Lindblom 1996, Smiljanić & Bradlow 2009, Niebuhr 2010, we would predict that 'early' repairs are more likely to be associated with temporal expansion following repair initiation.…”

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Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair

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Carter

2014

Journal of Phonetics

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This paper reports on a study of the temporal characteristics of phonological error repair in spontaneous Dutch speech, with a focus on how the articulation rate of the correct target word production -the repair -compares to that of the preceding erroneous target word attempt -the reparandum. The study is motivated by two findings from recent independent studies: first, that selfrepair is generally associated with relative temporal compression -that is, a local increase in articulation rate -following the repair initiation; second, that the timing of the repair initiation relative to the error is consequential for the prosody of the repair component. This study investigates to what extent these findings generalise to a collection of spontaneous phonological error repairs sampled from the Spoken Dutch Corpus. The study also asks how best to quantify repair timing, considers whether timing is consequential for the duration of the 'offset-to-repair interval', and tests for effects of lexical frequency. The results confirm that temporal compression following the repair initiation is more common than temporal expansion, and that repair timing has a significant effect on both offset-to-repair duration and repair tempo -at least in a subset of the data. A frequency effect is also observed. The results suggest that proportional measures of target word completeness provide the most informative quantifications of repair timing in modelling the overall temporal organisation of phonological error repairs.

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Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair

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Carter

2014

Journal of Phonetics

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“…Compared with the latter, plateau-shaped accents additionally mark the important piece of information as surprising, unexpected, stunning, incredible, indignant, undesired, or unintended. Such an expressive function would fit in with the larger accented-syllable and accented-vowel durations that were found for plateau-shaped accents (Baumann et al 2007;Kügler 2008;Breen et al 2010;Niebuhr 2010;Dorn and Ni Chasaide 2011;Görs and Niebuhr 2012). Further support for our conclusion comes from informal interviews with native speakers of Fering (taken by the first author in 2012).…”

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Pointed and plateau-shaped pitch accents in North Frisian

Niebuhr¹,

Hoekstra

2015

Laboratory Phonology

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Our study presents the initial results of an analysis of North Frisian intonation, based on a spontaneous interview corpus of Fering, the dialect of the island of Föhr off the west coast of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The corpus was recorded more than 50 years ago during fieldwork for language documentation and conservation purposes. We selected a small part of this corpusinterviews of 10 elderly speakers -and conducted multiparametric F 0 and duration measurements, focusing on nuclear rising-falling pitch accent patterns. We found strong evidence for a phonological pitch-accent distinction that relies on the difference between a pointed and a plateau-shaped F 0 peak. We suggest that the two pitch accents be represented as L+H* and H*+L, and we discuss our findings with regard to possible communicative functions, implications for intonational typology, and the trade-off between F 0 range and F 0 peak extension in conveying pitch height.

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“…To account for this complementary distribution, Trotzke and Turco (2015) suggest a clear-cut distinction between two types of emphasis (borrowing terms from the phonetic literature): 'emphasis for contrast' and 'emphasis for intensity' (first mentioned by Coleman 1914). While emphasis for contrast is typically associated with contrastive or corrective focus, emphasis for intensity, on the other hand, has to do with expressive and attitudinal evaluation (Niebuhr 2010). In syntactic terms, the emphasis projection responsible for those two interpretational options has two flavors: Emp [contrast] 0 and Emp [intensity] 0 , as depicted in (67).…”

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Particle topicalization and German clause structure

Trotzke

Quaglia

2016

J Comp German Linguistics

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In this paper, we provide a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of topicalizing verb particles in German. Based on the data we discuss, we argue that only a version of the Split-CP hypothesis for the German clause can account for the observations. Section 1 critiques previous accounts of particle topicalization and discusses some properties of particles that are potentially relevant to topicalization. We conclude that a particle's ability to be topicalized depends more on its ability to be contrasted with other particles than on the semantic autonomy of the particle per se. Section 2 discusses unexpected cases of non-contrastable particles in the left periphery. In this context, we introduce a previously unnoticed phenomenon in which particle verbs denoting strongly emotionally evaluated situations allow their particles to be topicalized, even if the particle does not receive a contrastive interpretation. In Sect. 3, we show that an elaborated syntax of the German left periphery of the kind argued for in cartographic approaches is uniquely able to predict the distribution of topicalized particles.

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On the Phonetics of Intensifying Emphasis in German

Cited by 49 publications

References 28 publications

Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair

Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair

Pointed and plateau-shaped pitch accents in North Frisian

Particle topicalization and German clause structure

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