Syllabische Struktur und Wortakzent. Prinzipien der Prosodik deutscher Wörter

Eisenberg, Peter

doi:10.1515/zfsw.1991.10.1.37

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“…Derived words hence are more complex than non-derived words, in that they can be decomposed in parts unlike non-derived words, such as mother 1 . In German, the stress assignment to the penultimate syllable is supposed to be the default stress pattern (Eisenberg, 2009;Féry, 1998;Wiese, 2000). All words used in the present study are stressed on the penultimate syllable.…”

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On the relationship between auditory cognition and speech intelligibility in cochlear implant users: An ERP study

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There is a high degree of variability in speech intelligibility outcomes across cochlear-implant (CI) users. To better understand how auditory cognition affects speech intelligibility with the CI, we performed an electroencephalography study in which we examined the relationship between central auditory processing, cognitive abilities, and speech intelligibility. Postlingually deafened CI users (N=13) and matched normal-hearing (NH) listeners (N=13) performed an oddball task with words presented in different background conditions (quiet, stationary noise, modulated noise). Participants had to categorize words as living (targets) or non-living entities (standards). We also assessed participants' working memory (WM) capacity and verbal abilities. For the oddball task, we found lower hit rates and prolonged response times in CI users when compared with NH listeners. Noise-related prolongation of the N1 amplitude was found for all participants. Further, we observed group-specific modulation effects of event-related potentials (ERPs) as a function of background noise. While NH listeners showed stronger noise-related modulation of the N1 latency, CI users revealed enhanced modulation effects of the N2/N4 latency. In general, higher-order processing (N2/N4, P3) was prolonged in CI users in all background conditions when compared with NH listeners. Longer N2/N4 latency in CI users suggests that these individuals have difficulties to map acoustic-phonetic features to lexical representations. These difficulties seem to be increased for speech-in-noise conditions when compared with speech in quiet background. Correlation analyses showed that shorter ERP latencies were related to enhanced speech intelligibility (N1, N2/N4), better lexical fluency (N1), and lower ratings of listening effort (N2/N4) in CI users. In sum, our findings suggest that CI users and NH listeners differ with regards to both the sensory and the higher-order processing of speech in quiet as well as in noisy background conditions. Our results also revealed that verbal abilities are related to speech processing and speech intelligibility in CI users, confirming the view that auditory cognition plays an important role for CI outcome. We conclude that differences in auditory-cognitive processing contribute to the variability in speech performance outcomes observed in CI users. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Hannover, Finke.Mareike@mh-hannover.de AbstractThere is a high degree of variability in speech intelligibility outcomes across cochlear-implant (CI) users. To better understand how auditory cognition aff...

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On the relationship between auditory cognition and speech intelligibility in cochlear implant users: An ERP study

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“…its syllabic structure. The native lexicon of German mainly consists of monosyllabic or bisyllabic trochees (Eisenberg 1991); consequently, reduplications are either bisyllabic or quadrisyllabic.…”

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“…The trochaic template of reduplication is the result of constraints on foot structure that are active elsewhere in the grammar of German, e.g. for the expression of plural (Eisenberg 1991;Wegener 2004;Wiese 2009), hypocoristics (Féry 1997;Itô and Mester 1997;Wiese 2001), and diminutives (Fanselow and Féry 2002). The following Tableau 1 depicts the emergence of reduplicative morphology in such a case (for ease of exposition, the factors determining the prosodic size of the reduplicant and leading to segmental alternation between base and reduplicant are ignored in this Tableau; see below for more details).…”

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On the emergence of reduplication in German morphophonology

Kentner

2017

Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft

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This paper discusses reduplication as a technique of word formation in German. In contrast to previous approaches, which consider reduplication as extra-grammatical and unproductive, this study identifies rhyme and ablaut reduplication as truly reduplicative processes in the morphology of German. A sizeable corpus of these reduplications and an acceptability rating study attest the productivity of this phenomenon. Other contemplable cases of reduplicative structures are properly treated as either phonological doubling, lexical sequencing, or (special cases of) compounding. An analysis in terms of Optimality Theory (OT) is offered which suggests that both rhyme and ablaut reduplication emerge when a segmentally and prosodically underspecified expressive morpheme is attached to a base -given that the base strictly obeys certain word prosodic requirements. The present approach considers the morphophonology to be blind to morphosyntactic structure and consequently eschews constraints that make explicit reference to base-reduplicant correspondence. The OT grammar successfully models the emergence of the fixed bipedal structure, the obligatory segmental deviance of the reduplicant, non-exponence of the expressive morpheme in the case of non-trochaic bases, the variable linearization of base and reduplicant in ablaut reduplication, and the interaction of reduplication with segmental alternations. Certain (crosslinguistic) correlations regarding constraints on reduplicative word formation and poetic devices, such as rhyme and meter, are discussed.

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“…Hall (1992: 23) states that German word stress is "probably one of the least understood and certainly one of the most controversial aspects of German phonology". Along these lines, stress rules and their sensitivity to morphological and prosodic structure are a matter of debate (cf., e.g., Wurzel 1980;Giegerich 1985;Eisenberg 1991;Vennemann 1991). One possible account of German stress is based on the assumption that the prosodic foot is a domain of stress assignment, whereby several additional rules should be postulated in order to include the variety of different stress patterns in German (Wiese 2000;Domahs et al 2008).…”

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Rhythmic structure effects on glottalisation: A study of different speech styles in Polish and German

Malisz

Żygis

Pompino-Marschall

2013

Laboratory Phonology

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"But the increasing interest in connected, more specifically spontaneous speech data bases has made it mandatory for researchers to enter into phonetics and phonology above the word in real-life communication, and it is in this domain that glottalisation phenomena abound." (Kohler 2001: 317) Abstract: The present paper examines glottal stops and the glottalisation of word-initial vowels in Polish and German. The presence of glottal marking is studied depending on speech style ('speech' vs. 'dialogue'), prominence, phrasal position, speech rate, word type, preceding segment, and following vowel height. A question is also posed about the extent to which glottal marking might be dependent on the rhythmic structure of a given language or style. We analyzed recordings of 18 Polish and German speakers. The results point to significant differences between the two languages. In German, glottal marking occurs significantly more often (63.4%) than in Polish (45%). Whereas in both languages (and both styles) the majority of prominent vowels are more often glottally marked than non-prominent vowels, in German word-initial non-prominent syllables are also marked relatively often. Regarding phrase position, glottal marking occurs significantly more often at the phrase-initial position compared to phrase-medial position in Polish, while no such difference has been found in German. In addition, it is shown that in both languages glottal marking is strongly dependent on the tongue height of the marked vowel: low vowels are more frequently glottalised than non-low vowels. Finally, glottal marking in Polish is more likely to occur when rhythmic variability shifts towards the 'indeterminate', strengthening the hypothesis that glottal marking facilitates perceptual grouping.

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Syllabische Struktur und Wortakzent. Prinzipien der Prosodik deutscher Wörter

Cited by 55 publications

References 1 publication

On the relationship between auditory cognition and speech intelligibility in cochlear implant users: An ERP study

On the relationship between auditory cognition and speech intelligibility in cochlear implant users: An ERP study

On the emergence of reduplication in German morphophonology

Rhythmic structure effects on glottalisation: A study of different speech styles in Polish and German

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