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- Bissiri, M.P., et al.
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Perception of glottalization in varying pitch contexts in Mandarin Chinese
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7. - ISCA : ISCA. ; , s. 633-637
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although glottalization has often been associated with lowpitch, evidence from a number of sources supports theassertion that this association is not obligatory, and is likely tobe language-specific. Following a previous study testingperception of glottalization by German, English, and Swedishlisteners, the current research investigates the influence ofpitch context on the perception of glottalization by nativespeakers of a tone language, Mandarin Chinese. Listenersheard AXB sets in which they were asked to match glottalizedstimuli with pitch contours. We find that Mandarin listenerstend not to be influenced by the pitch context when judgingthe pitch of glottalized stretches of speech. These data lendsupport to the idea that the perception of glottalization variesin relation to language-specific prosodic structure.
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- Zellers, Margaret, et al.
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Exploring Interactional Features with Prosodic Patterns
- 2014
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Ingår i: Language and Speech. - : SAGE Publications. - 0023-8309 .- 1756-6053. ; 57:3, s. 285-309
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study adopts a multiple-methods approach to the investigation of prosody, drawing on insights from a quantitative methodology (experimental prosody research) as well as a qualitative one (conversation analysis). We use a k-means cluster analysis to investigate prosodic patterns in conversational sequences involving lexico-semantic contrastive structures. This combined methodology demonstrates that quantitative/statistical methods are a valuable tool for making relatively objective characterizations of acoustic features of speech, while qualitative methods are essential for interpreting the quantitative results. We find that in sequences that maintain global prosodic characteristics across contrastive structures, participants orient to interactional problems, such as determining who has the right to the floor, or avoiding disruption of an ongoing interaction. On the other hand, in sequences in which the global prosody is different across contrastive structures, participants do not generally appear to be orienting to such problems of alignment. Our findings expand the interpretation of "contrastive prosody" that is commonly used in experimental prosody approaches, while providing a way for conversation-analytic research to improve quantification and generalizability of findings.
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- Zellers, Margaret
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Perception of pitch tails at potential turn boundaries in Swedish
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. ; , s. 1944-1948
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a number of languages, intonational patterns at prosodic boundaries are considered to be relevant for turn transition or turn hold. A perception experiment tested the influence of fundamental frequency (F0) peak height and rising final contours on Swedish listeners’ judgment about whether a speaker wanted to hold the turn. While F0 peak height, as has been previously shown, did influence listeners’ judgments, the end height of rising pitch tails apparently did not influence listeners’ judgments about whether a speaker planned to continue talking, even though they showed sensitivity to the differences in a discrimination task. The differences in responses in the tasks, as well as the difference from results found for other languages, may indicate that listeners used comparative prominence to guide their judgments, rather than intonation playing a direct role in the turn-transition system.
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