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- Bissiri, M.P., et al.
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Perception of glottalization in varying pitch contexts across languages
- 2013
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Ingår i: <em>INTERSPEECH-2013</em>. ; , s. 253-257
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Glottalization is often associated with low pitch in intonation languages, but evidence from many languages indicates that this is not an obligatory association. We asked speakers of German, English and Swedish to compare glottalized stimuli with several pitch contour alternatives in an AXB listening test. Although the low F0 in the glottalized stimuli tended to be perceived as most similar to falling pitch contours, this was not always the case, indicating that pitch perception in glottalization cannot be predicted by F0 alone. We also found evidence for cross-linguistic differences in the degree of flexibility of pitch judgments in glottalized stretches of speech.
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- Zellers, Margaret
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Pitch and lengthening as cues to turn transition in Swedish
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Interspeech 2013. ; , s. 248-252
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In many cases of turn transition in conversation, a new speaker may respond to phonetic cues from the end of the prior turn, including variation in prosodic features such as pitch and final lengthening. Although consistent pitch and lengthening features are well-established for some languages at potential points of turn transition, this is not necessarily the case for Swedish. The current study uses a two-alternative forced choice task to investigate how variation in pitch contour and lengthening at the ends of syntactically complete turns can influence listeners’ expectations of turn hold or turn transition. Both lengthening and pitch contour features were found to influence listeners’ judgments about whether turn transition would occur, with shorter length and higher final pitch peaks associated with turn hold. Furthermore, listeners were more certain about their judgments when asked about turn-hold rather than turn-change, suggesting an imbalance in the strength of turn-hold versus turn-transition cues.
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- Zellers, Margaret
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Prosodic variation for topic shift and other functions in local contrasts in conversation
- 2013
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Ingår i: Phonetica. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 0031-8388 .- 1423-0321. ; 69:4, s. 231-253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Speakers and listeners have been shown to use phonetic cues to help them in tracking the ongoing structure of conversational interaction, but fragmentation between qualitative and quantitative research means that the forms and functions of these cues have been given varying characterizations. The current study explores prosodic variation in contrastive structures in conversational data, using a combined methodology adopting aspects from both qualitative (conversation analysis) and quantitative (experimental phonetics/phonology) approaches. Statistical and conversation-analytical methods used together reveal relationships between prosodic variation and interactional function, such as variations in pitch range across adjacent turns being linked to the presence of 'stepwise' topic changes.
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