Sources of variation in tonal alignment: Evidence from acoustic and kinematic data

Mücke, Doris; Grice, Martine; Becker, Johannes; Hermes, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2009.03.005

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“…In addition, both Northern and Southern speakers of German were found to align the prenuclear rises later than suggested by data for English and Dutch. Mücke et al (2008Mücke et al ( , 2009) found a similar difference between speakers of (Northern) Düsseldorf German and (South Eastern) Vienna German, the latter aligning the beginning and end of prenuclear rises and the peaks of rising-falling accents later. Kleber and Rathcke (2008) supplemented these studies with data from East Central German, which showed earlier alignments of the beginnings of prenuclear rises than both Northern and Southern German.…”

Section: Cross-linguistic Variationmentioning

confidence: 88%

The timing of nuclear falls: Evidence from Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and High German

Peters

Hanssen

Gussenhoven

2015

Laboratory Phonology

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A reading experiment was designed to examine the effects of word boundaries and metrical structure on the temporal alignment of the accentual peak and the end of the fall in nuclear rising-falling accents. Participants were speakers of a number of closely related dialects and languages from the coastal area of the Netherlands and North-West Germany, covering Zeelandic Dutch, Hollandic Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and Northern High German. Our findings suggest that in no variety is the timing of the nuclear peak or the end of the fall systematically affected by the location of the final word boundary or that of the following stress. In most cases, the accentual peak was found to be stably aligned with the beginning of the nuclear accented syllable, while the end of the fall occurred at a fairly constant distance from the preceding F 0 peak. These findings do not support a representation of the nuclear fall by a sequence of a high accentual tone and a 'phrase accent' that is secondarily associated to a postnuclear stress. In addition, we found substantial cross-linguistic variation in the overall timing of the beginning and end of the fall. One component in this variation is a geographically gradient shift in the alignment of the pitch gesture.

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Section: Cross-linguistic Variationmentioning

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The timing of nuclear falls: Evidence from Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and High German

Peters

Hanssen

Gussenhoven

2015

Laboratory Phonology

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“…If we intend to significantly extend that knowledge, detailed descriptions of the intonation of a greater number of language varieties are needed. Furthermore, specific contrastive studies should be undertaken in order to gain insight into the nature of the potential intonational differences and similarities across languages and language varieties (Atterer & Ladd 2004;Beckman et al 2002;Elordieta & Calleja 2005;van Leyden 2004;van Leyden & van Heuven 2006;Muecke et al 2009;. In the present paper, we report on the results of two experiments aimed to capture some of the differences between the intonation of Catalan and Spanish, as spoken in the Western Mediterranean island of Majorca.…”

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A contrastive study of Catalan and Spanish declarative intonation: Focus on Majorcan dialects

Simonet

2010

Probus

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The goal of the present paper is to identify some of the differences in the intonation of Catalan and Spanish as spoken in Majorca. The tonal features we investigated were: (1) utterance-final pitch accents in broad focus declaratives, and (2) local contrastive focus pitch accents. Previous research, mostly on related varieties, such as Central Catalan and Castilian Spanish, had indirectly suggested that potential differences could arise with regards to these specific configurations (Estebas 2003a,c;Face 2002aFace , 2004. The Majorcan dialects of Catalan and Spanish were found to fundamentally differ in the shape and alignment patterns of their utterance-final pitch accents (of broad focus declaratives) in that Catalan displayed low or falling pitch accents while Spanish presented small rising-falling pitch accents. On the other hand, statistical differences were found with respect to the alignment of pitch valleys culminating rising-falling pitch contours in contrastive focus accents. Overall, the findings reported here add to our knowledge of the intonational differences and similarities between Romance languages by comparing two contact languages using similar materials and under identical experimental conditions. These findings are relevant for comparative-historical purposes and future language contact studies.

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“…For example, Grabe et al (2000) reported substantial differences in tonal target interactions in various dialects of British English. Similarly, Mü cke and her colleagues report differences between Viennese and Dusseldorf German for resolution of such alignment issues (Mü cke et al, 2009), and Levi (submitted for publication) reports target deletion by Turkish speakers to prevent tonal crowding.…”

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On the acoustic correlates of high and low nuclear pitch accents in American English

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Shattuck‐Hufnagel

Iseli

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Speech Communication

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Sources of variation in tonal alignment: Evidence from acoustic and kinematic data

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

The timing of nuclear falls: Evidence from Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and High German

The timing of nuclear falls: Evidence from Dutch, West Frisian, Dutch Low Saxon, German Low Saxon, and High German

A contrastive study of Catalan and Spanish declarative intonation: Focus on Majorcan dialects

On the acoustic correlates of high and low nuclear pitch accents in American English

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